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Inmates work toward a cleaner future with unique custodial class K5 News (with video) Martin Douthit is an instructor at Renton Technical College (Washington), and his classroom is like no other at Renton Tech. It’s…
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CEO retirements Dennis Harkins, president of Orange Coast College (OCC) in California, plans to retire at the end of the fall semester after leading the Costa Mesa campus for nine years. Harkins oversaw significant changes…
The dual-enrollment staffing puzzle
Ask any high school principal in the Denver Public Schools to name the top barriers to sustaining their robust dual-enrollment program and they almost certainly will point to staffing. Denver students take approximately 10,000 college…
Commentary: Are you doing enough when it comes to cyber security? Central Penn Business Journal Like other businesses, it is not enough for academic institutions to keep their data safe, they need to continuously educate…
Keeping up with industry
Working with industry to determine the skills and breadth of knowledge that advanced technology employers will need technicians to have in three to five years is what two-year college educators leading Advanced Technological Education (ATE)…
Reaching across the aisle
Having been at the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) and in Washington, D.C., for a few years now, I am privileged to be able to look back at what we have accomplished together and…
A ‘safe place’ to explore STEM careers
Community college students had an unusual opportunity to share their opinions with policymakers recently when members of the National Science Board’s Task Force on the Skilled Technical Workforce held a “listening session.” Madeline PattonMadeline Patton…
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CBS Sports to televise football national championship game NJCAA.org The agreement marks the first time a National Junior College Athletic Association national championship game will be nationally televised. $8M to help Ohio workers, companies, affected…
Funding roundup
North Carolina recently distributed more than $1.8 million in Finish Line Grants to more than 30 community colleges across the state. Finish Line Grants are aimed at helping community college students who face unforeseen financial…
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From the class straight to the field Several graduates of Wallace Community College’s pre-apprentice line worker program are currently helping area power companies to repair damage caused by Hurricane Michael. Some of those line workers…