Biden’s student loan waiting game drags onPolitico’s Weekly EducationThe nation’s 40 million student loan borrowers are still waiting on the Biden administration to announce whether they’ll have to resume monthly payments in September. And whether…
A program that helps community college faculty improve their STEM project pitches to obtain National Science Foundation (NSF) grants focused on technician education is widening eligibility to more faculty. https://www.mentor-connect.org/ All two-year college STEM faculty…
The U.S. was already facing a growing shortage of nurses when Covid hit and accelerated the crisis. According to a recent Center for American Progress (CAP) report, the primary challenges that higher education institutions face…
4 East Bay community colleges offer financial incentives to boost enrollmentKPIXThere’s a push to remove barriers to education and boost enrollment in California’s East Bay by making community college classes free. OTC unveils new Plaster…
Shopping malls may have lost much of their luster for hanging out, but the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, is not your average mall. Each day, about 170,000 people visit the facility, which includes…
Anecdotal reports from some community colleges across the country show hopeful signs that perhaps draconian drops in enrollment during the Covid pandemic may be coming to an end. Community colleges have amped up efforts to…
Santa Fe Community College offering dual online, in person classesSanta Fe New MexicanHyFlex, which allows students to choose on any given day whether they show up in person or stream the course online live, is…
San Diego Community College District (SDCCD) will expand a free online textbook program using a $975,000 federal grant. Almost 1,200 classes with free or low-cost textbooks were offered at the district’s four colleges in fall…
The U.S. Education Department on Thursday (ED) brought together approximately 80 educators, including a clutch of community college leaders, in a day-long event to discuss strategies to highlight and enhance efforts focused on college completion. …
Randy Cheng’s family always told him he had an engineering mindset. So, at 23, when he left a four-year university after a pathway toward pre-dentistry didn’t work out, he decided to take his family’s insights…