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Hundreds of Ukrainian refugees get free weekly English lessons at EvCCHerald NetWashington’s Snohomish County is home to 1,905 refugees from Ukraine. Refugee and Immigrant Services Northwest is helping them to build new lives. Your guide…
Campus Issues
Look deeper for student potential
Educators can better help students realize their full potential if they look beyond IQ and other standard measures of intelligence and consider their current level of competence, life skills, passion and inspiration to succeed, the…
Newsmakers
New CEOs Emmett Griswold has been named president of Albany Technical College in Georgia, effective November 1. He has served as interim president since June. Griswold started at the college as a criminal justice instructor…
DataPoints: Sifting through new Perkins data
The U.S. Education Department this week released Perkins program data culled from state reports submitted for the 2020-21 program year, which is the first year to include data under Perkins V. The information is presented…
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Onondaga Community College gets ready for the arrival of President BidenCNYCentralOnondaga Community College has canceled classes on Thursday to accommodate President Joe Biden arriving on the campus to deliver remarks on the multi-billion-dollar Micron facility…
Back in their line of work
Luis Espinoza’s ordeal to be able to practice as a nurse in the U.S. is a cautionary tale. Despite immigrating from Mexico to Chicago in 1999 with a nursing degree and returning to obtain a…
Funding roundup
Greenville Technical College (GTC) broke ground this month for a new health and life sciences building on the college’s Barton Campus. The facility has been named the Prisma Health Center for Health & Life Sciences…
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Lack of transportation hinders community college studentsStateline (Pew Charitable Trusts)Monica Momoh, a 25-year-old freshman at the Community College of Baltimore County in Maryland, doesn’t cry easily. But one day a few weeks ago, she found…
Finding their spark
Student recruitment is an aspect of many of the Advanced Technological Education (ATE) initiatives that the National Science Foundation (NSF) supports with grants to community and two-year technical colleges. ATE educators are aware that career…
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Companies lure hourly workers with college tuition perksAssociated PressWhile working full time for the chain, Daniella Malave completed two years of community college with annual stipends of $5,250 from Chipotle. After that, she enrolled in…