AACC news & notes
Policy & advocacy ED expected to nix gainful employment regulation The U.S. Education Department (ED) is expected to publish in late June or early July a final regulation to eliminate the so-called “gainful employment” rule,…
Campus Issues
Global Connections: An international model for apprentice support services
Many believe that apprenticeships can be a solution to our nation’s workforce and education challenges — from eliminating the student debt crisis and increasing student completion rates, to closing the skills gap and resolving racial…
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Millions of adults lack basic reading skills needed for good jobs PBS NewsHour/Education Week (video) In the U.S., 36 million adults lack the basic literacy skills needed to sustain employment — yet education programs for this…
Promoting diversity at the top
Those who picture a “gray-haired, white, heterosexual male” when they are about to meet a community college president are not necessarily wrong, but the assumption is increasingly out of date in 2019. Ed FinkelEd Finkel…
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2020 race brings free college back to the national stage Associated Press The free college movement is resurfacing as a central rallying point for Democrats as they set their sights on the White House. GM,…
Overcoming ‘summer melt’
For community colleges trying to retain every student, summer is a precarious season when many high school graduates who plan to enroll in the fall don’t follow through. Current students who take the summer off,…
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U.S. says $168M ITT for-profit student loans to be forgiven STLtoday.com Former students at ITT Technical Institute locations nationwide, including two in the St. Louis area, will not have to pay $168 million they still…
Funding roundup
In Wisconsin, Madison Area Technical College’s Innovation Grant program provided $26,999 to buy Hero, a simulation model dog used by veterinary technician students. Students can draw blood, insert a breathing tube or catheter and stop…
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…And Justice for All: Community colleges serving the middle class Brookings (blog) Middle-class students are at least as likely to attend two-year colleges as they are to attend public four-year colleges. It’s getting harder for…
The entrepreneurial community college
Community colleges are becoming more entrepreneurial in their operational strategies. This entrepreneurism trend is partially in response to declining financial resources from traditional funding sources alongside increasing demands. Madeline Pumariega / Carrie HendersonMadeline Pumariega is…