Well-positioned to serve students
Of all of the dire predictions making headlines regarding COVID-19, one that does not appear to make the news is this: community colleges were and are well-positioned to address student needs during and after this…
Campus Issues
Funding roundup
In Florida, the Center for Laser and Fiber Optic Education (LASER-TEC), headquartered at Indian River State College, has received a $1.6 million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to support its transition into an Advanced Technological…
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Maricopa Community Colleges unveils plan to reopen slowly. Here’s how it will workAZCentral.comOfficials at the Arizona college district have set a target date of June 15 to hold select career and technical education classes in…
Developing a training program for contact tracers
The day after Memorial Day, Clark State Community College in Springfield, Ohio, will launch an online short-term training program that will prepare contact tracers to help curb the spread of the coronavirus. The college developed…
A Kansas college’s comeback plan
On Monday, Kansas City Kansas Community College (KCKCC) had a “soft” opening at all of its locations, but it wasn’t business as usual. Eighty-six students came to the college mainly to return borrowed books and…
Why community colleges may be the best strategic choice for fall enrollment
During these unprecedented times, families with college-age children face difficult decisions about what to do for the fall semester. In an April Art & Science Group poll of graduating high school seniors, more than half…
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Major Supreme Court opinions set to be released: DACA, Trump’s taxes, gay rights, abortionNBC NewsDue to the coronavirus, the potentially landmark rulings will be posted online, not distributed at the court, which is closed. Eastern…
Reporter’s notebook
AACC/ACCT hope to see training funding in HEROES ActNew ED guidance on regs and reporting requirementsAdmin salary reductions part of Ohio college’s budget-cutting planCovering colleges’ nursing test feesNew baccalaureate programs in Wyoming AACC/ACCT hope to…
Flattening the online learning curve
When strolling the neighborhood near her home in Bend, Oregon, Jennifer McCabe often pauses to examine plants and trees in fine detail – the delicate, pale-blue flower of a maiden blue-eyed Mary, the saw-toothed leaf…
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How Betsy DeVos’s handling of relief funds hurt some of the country’s neediest schools, studentsWashington PostThe U.S. Education Department is disseminating money in the $1 billion pot of funding “very broadly so the impact is…