Before the pandemic, Hispanic student enrollments were booming at undergraduate institutions across the country, including Northern Essex Community College (NECC) in Massachusetts. Nationally Hispanic enrollments increased by 48% from the fall of 2009 to the…
Virginia in recent months has upgraded its Credits2Careers portal aimed at adult learners, including the military who would like to attend community colleges. It is prepared to go live with a second effort, the Transfer…
Florida college receives $15M to expand tech programs Mentors from a small-business STEM incubatorNew Jersey college freezes tuition for third year in a row Florida college receives $15M to expand tech programs Miami Dade College…
Metallica gives $100K grant to Iowa collegeWQADClinton Community College was one of nine community colleges chosen to participate in the Metallica Scholars Initiative. Those schools were each given $100,000 grant from the band’s All Within…
Military veterans throughout California soon will march into pre-approved community college course credits, as they have previously in other states like Texas, Virginia and Ohio, giving them the ability to spend hard-earned GI Bill benefits…
States tackle free college after Biden failed to deliverPolitico’s Weekly EducationA growing number of states are introducing legislation or using pandemic relief aid to make two years of community college free for their residents. Final…
The U.S. Education Department (ED) last Friday wrapped up the second of three week-long negotiated rulemaking (negreg) sessions of the Committee on Institutional and Programmatic Eligibility for the Title IV student aid programs. As previously…
Sometimes, when we think about Black History, we think about it as being in the past. At Phi Theta Kappa, Black History is something we live daily. It is very much a part of our present….
Wake Technical Community College in North Carolina has received a $1.4 million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to boost undergraduate research opportunities for STEM students. The award is Wake Tech’s largest NSF grant to date…
The American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) has announced the finalists for its 2022 Awards of Excellence, which underscore the association’s priorities and brings national visibility to promising practices among its member colleges. A special…