A growing number of community colleges over the years have started using alternatives to a single, standardized placement test to determine if students can do college-level work. Now a new study supports that such alternative…
An Intro to Business book costs $121, but McHenry County College (MCC) students pay zero for it this fall semester thanks to the Illinois college’s textbook reduction program. Donna Bieschkeis a marketing communications specialist at…
Local community colleges create workforce consortium Albany Times Union Five community colleges in the Albany, New York, region this week launched a new workforce development coalition to pool resources to better tackle the labor shortage…
The wind and rain of Hurricane Florence may have subsided but many parts of North and South Carolina now face damaging floods. As a result of rising waters and power lines downed by the storm,…
Policy & advocacy Federal funding update Congressional negotiators have approved the final version of the fiscal year 2019 Labor, HHS and Education (LHHS) appropriations bill, and the news is mostly good for community colleges. The…
How the Great Recession turned America’s student-loan problem into a $1.5T crisis MarketPlace Ten years after the start of the financial collapse, Americans of all types are saddled with student debt that’s holding them back…
Community college leaders would be hard pressed to find a federal statute that has had such a tremendous impact, yet is as widely misunderstood — even reviled — as Title IX of the Education Amendments…
The American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) recently joined 19 other higher education associations in filing an amicus brief in a lawsuit challenging the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) decision to rescind its net neutrality rules….
Columbia State enrollment reaches new high Columbia Daily Herald The college says the increase in first-year students is due in large part to the success of the Tennessee Promise program, which allows graduating high school…
Approximately 1,100 U.S. college students commit suicide each year. During September, many colleges are recognizing Suicide Prevention Awareness Month by sharing resources and stories in an effort to break the stigma that surrounds mental health….