Valuable skills attained in first jobs
First jobs are typically on the lower end of the pay scale, but they often do provide an opportunity to develop crucial skills that are valuable in future jobs and job satisfaction, according to results…
Campus Issues
Newsmakers
New CEOs Michael Gavin will become the fifth president of Delta College in Michigan. He most recently was vice president of learning at Anne Arundel Community College in Maryland. His leadership in strategic planning led…
Today’s hiring process
Editor’s note: This Q&A comes from the current issue of the Community College Journal, published bimonthly by the American Association of Community Colleges. The competencies community college leaders must demonstrate have expanded and evolved over…
Funding roundup
College of the Mainland (COM) will use a $20,000 donation from COM board trustee Alan Waters and Yolanda Nino-Waters to establish the Latinas Adelante Scholarship. The gift will expand opportunities for Latina women to achieve…
Gauging entrepreneurial activities at community colleges
Many community colleges with entrepreneurial interests appear to have increased, or at least not reduced, their range of entrepreneurship education and training activities over the past several years despite Covid and resource availability headwinds at…
Headlines
Kankakee Community College to offer a free class to vaccinated students in fall 2021Country Herald“We want to do our part in the community to mitigate Covid,” said Beth Nunley, the Illinois college’s vice president for…
New opportunities for sharing news
Soon after Northern Essex Community College’s (NECC) longtime local newspaper announced another round of cost-saving measures, a veteran reporter was asked how he was coping. He sighed and said staff members were doing the best…
Headlines
Most Washington state community colleges will require students to get Covid vaccines this fallSeattle TimesMore than 25 of the state’s 34 community and technical colleges will require vaccines come September, according to state officials. Heartland…
Partisan about Pell
A House hearing Thursday focusing on Pell grants yielded mostly well-known arguments from both sides of the aisle: Democrats contended that an increase to the maximum award — in particular, doubling it — is long…
Washington Watch: ED releases additional higher ed relief funds
The U.S. Education Department (ED) on Thursday released $3.2 billion in remaining Higher Education Emergency Relief Funds (HEERF) to support students at historic and under-resourced institutions. The new funding comes overwhelmingly through Titles III and…