Apprenticeships are critical in educating new workers for available jobs, but they are not growing at a rate as envisioned, the U.S. labor secretary told House lawmakers on Wednesday. Matthew DembickiMatthew Dembicki edits Community College…
Overhaul of state college system advances in state Senate Sun Sentinel A plan to create a statewide board to oversee Florida’s state and community colleges advanced this week, while college presidents raised objections to a…
Editor’s note: Cheryl Costantini, vice president of content strategy at Cengage, discusses how Cengage is using open content to create learning solutions that impact success for both learners and institutions as a whole. Costantini and…
U.S. Education Department (ED) officials this week opened formal negotiations to rewrite federal rules meant to protect students from fraud by colleges and universities. Associated PressCopyright 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material…
DeVos: Stop ‘forcing’ four-year degrees as only pathway to success Education Week At the first meeting of the White House Task Force on Apprenticeship Expansion, U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said that the country needs…
If it wasn’t for federal financial aid, huge numbers of students would be shut out of college, yet it’s a continuing struggle for community colleges to persuade prospective students eligible for aid to fill out…
A former U.S. education undersecretary who now heads the College Promise Campaign says Promise partnerships should consider serving students in apprenticeships and dual-enrollment programs. Matthew DembickiMatthew Dembicki edits Community College Daily and serves as associate…
California promises free community college tuition Sacramento Bee Community college officials wonder how the state will pay for a recently enacted California Promise Grant program that waives the tuition for all first-time, full time community…
Pathway to the presidency: More than 40 percent of current community college CEOs came up through the academic ranks. (Read full PDF.) AACC StaffMore Posts – Website
An annual report on international students shows a nearly 10 percent drop in foreign students who attended U.S. community colleges in the 2016-17 academic year, and that rate may double for the current school year….