In its latest announcement of available funding through the CARES Act, the U.S. Education Department (ED) on Thursday said it is providing another round of funds – nearly $1.4 billion – to minority-serving institutions (MSIs), as well as institutions…
To address food insecurity during the coronavirus crisis, New Mexico’s Santa Fe Community College (SFCC) has launched a food distribution initiative in partnership with World Central Kitchen, which is led by chef and humanitarian José Andrés. The SFCC Foundation…
New CEOs Wesley Beddard will be the new president of Martin Community College in North Carolina, starting on July 1. He currently is associate vice president of programs at the North Carolina Community College System…
Essential workers to get free college under new Whitmer planCNNThe plan, proposed by Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and modeled on the GI Bill, would pay for college for those frontline workers who don’t have a…
2020 was promising to be the year of new beginnings for El Centro College’s recently rebranded Culinary, Pastry and Hospitality (CPH) program. There was the new name, the new 50,000-square-foot facility, even a star-studded celebrity…
The Community College Research Center (CCRC) released two new blog posts today. The first one examines community college enrollment trends during the Great Recession as a lens to view the impacts of COVID-19 on enrollments this…
Commentary: Community colleges will be essential to California’s recoverySan Francisco ExaminerWhen the shelter-in-place order is finally lifted, millions of Californians will be seeking employment in a drastically different economy. Some workplaces will not survive; others…
In general, community colleges seem to be working well with their high school partners to adapt their courses to a distance learning environment for dual-enrollment students. Dual-enrollment programs are based on strong partnerships, and that…
Commentary: The strengths we’ve built during the coronavirus outbreak will accelerate our recoveryCleveland.comThe strengths we build now will carry us forward as we emerge from this outbreak, writes Alex Johnson, president of Cuyahoga Community College…
Each week since the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, board members of the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) and the Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT) have come together to hear from experts and…