After a year in Copenhagen, Denmark, as a Fulbright Scholar, Saint Paul College (SPC) biology professor Kristyn VanderWaal Mills returned with a clearer picture of how different education systems prepare students for careers in science…
Community colleges are kind of underrated The Indicator from Planet Money (National Public Radio) Community colleges are hot right now, growing faster nationwide than four-year colleges. So we decided to call a few of them…
Photos from institutional members of the American Association of Community Colleges. Oakland Community College’s Groleau-White Lake Mastodon, nicknamed “Elmer,” will be loaned to the Cranbrook Institute of Science. It is a first step to grow a…
Corey Homer, president of Sussex County Community College (New Jersey), had been thinking about the success of the drone training program at nearby Warren County Community College – considering how his students could benefit from such…
Iowa becomes first state to open applications for Workforce Pell Grant for people looking to learn a trade KCRG The program will be especially helpful for Iowans who can’t put their lives on hold, says…
On July 1, 2026, one of the most consequential workforce development policies in decades will take effect. On this day, after years of bipartisan advocacy, the Workforce Pell Grant program will officially go live. As…
Hyde-Smith helps introduce bipartisan community college agricultural education bill American Ag Network The Community College Agriculture Advancement Act (S. 4730) would amend the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 to give…
On Tuesday, student teams that comprised the 12 college finalists for the 2026 Community College Innovation Challenge pitched their STEM-related solutions for real-world problems during a poster session held at the Cannon House Office Building…
Twelve teams of community college students from across the United States spent months using creative thinking and classroom learning to design innovations to solve real-world problems. On June 9, they had the opportunity to showcase…
Community colleges have earned their current moment in the sun. While private four-year institutions are seeing enrollment decline and public universities have grown modestly, community colleges have surged. They’ve added 173,000 undergraduate students last fall,…