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College while in high school: How dual credit is aiming for equity Christian Science Monitor Almost four decades after Minnesota launched the first statewide program, a majority of high schools offer dual credit, and roughly…
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CUNY phases out its last ‘remedial’ course, capping yearslong shift Chalkbeat New York New York City’s public community colleges, for the first time in decades, assigned no new students this year to “remedial” classes, marking…
Fall of a mall, rise of an incubator
For Michael Heindl, president of Northwest Mississippi Community College (NWCC), opportunity knocked when a major new mall at the Mississippi-Tennessee border, the Tanger Outlets Southaven, opened in 2015 and began pulling shoppers and then retailers…
Attaining support to develop a cybersecurity workforce
Since October 2019, when the three-person team from Big Sandy Community and Technical College (Kentucky) mapped out a plan with their MentorLinks Mentor Davina Pruitt-Mentle to launch an associate of applied science degree with a…
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Audit finds Linn-Benton Community College a leader in data-driven success Albany Democrat-Herald The Oregon college collects data to determine which new programs to launch and which are no longer needed. It takes a while to…
Washington Watch: ED seeks info on determining ‘low financial value’ programs
In an action that echoes the Obama administration’s wildly unpopular college ratings system, the U.S. Education Department is formally soliciting public input on the creation of a list of higher education programs that provide “low…
Funding roundup
Quinsigamond Community College (QCC) and Worcester State University have received grants totaling $1.6 million from the governor’s administration to expand capacity to meet the continuing demand for skilled nurses in Massachusetts. The $1 million grant…
Foxx again at the helm of House committee
Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-North Carolina) will again head the House committee in charge of overseeing education and workforce issues. The House Steering Committee on Monday selected Foxx to lead the House Committee on Education and…
Washington Watch: This week in Washington
“This Week in Washington” provides weekly updates from the American Association of Community Colleges’ (AACC) Office of Government Relations, detailing the latest movements on key community college advocacy issues and AACC’s activity in Washington, D.C….
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What happened to community college enrollment during the first years of the pandemic? It depends on the students’ age Mixed Methods Blog (Community College Research Center) High school dual-enrollment students comprised more than a quarter…