Community colleges struggle to build women’s basketball teams Chicago Daily Herald Although basketball is the top girls high school sport nationwide and attracted 16,929 participants in Illinois last year, its popularity hasn’t carried over to…
Germanna Community College awards 771 degrees and certificates at fall commencement Culpepper Star-Exponent At Germanna Community College’s fall commencement ceremony Thursday, Cynthia Tyler told her peers about her journey from stay-at-home mom to a graduate…
Community colleges are lowering the cost of education New Jersey Monthly Community colleges are positioned as an antidote to the staggering costs of most four-year schools. Here’s how they fill this growing need. City finalizes…
Faculty speak out against community college consolidation plan Hartford Courant With the Board of Regents for Higher Education poised to vote Thursday on a cost-saving plan to consolidate the state’s 12 community colleges, some faculty…
ECCC: Report shows high marks for student success, student progress Meridian Star Mississippi’s Community College Report Card incorporates measures closely aligned with the Voluntary Framework of Accountability developed by the American Association of Community Colleges….
Commentary: Look to community colleges for diverse tech-industry talent Seattle Times Seattle’s technology industry has a diversity problem, writes Sheila Edwards Lange, president of Seattle Central College. Filling adjunct teaching jobs in math, science now…
How the GOP tax bill would affect community colleges NPR (with audio) The tax overhaul making its way though Congress includes some provisions that worry Jose Adames, president of El Centro College, a community college…
OTC requests tax hike to build training center for high-paying technical jobs Springfield News-Leader (with video) To establish the Center for Excellence for Advanced Manufacturing and Technology — and significantly expand technical and allied health…
MCC marine biology program making waves Wicked Local Bedford In Massachusetts, students at Middlesex Community College were recently featured on the ABC program “Sea Rescue” (see video, below) highlighting the school’s marine biology program and…
To solve the diversity drought in software engineering, look to community colleges Motherboard Community college computer science classes teach the fundamentals, broad concepts like data structures, algorithmic complexity and object-oriented programming. Community college consolidation would…