The number of first-time associate-degree earners (students with no prior college credential) has decreased from 2012-13 to 2018-19, due mainly to a drop among older students earning a two-year degree, according to figures from the…
New CEOs Brian Bicknell is now president of Manchester Community College (MCC) in New Hampshire. He had served as interim president since January 1. Previously, Bicknell was vice president of academic affairs at MCC for…
The coronavirus pandemic has many high school seniors wondering what their postsecondary future may hold, from uncertainly about affording their top-pick institutions, to whether those colleges will even endure financially. Edison State Community College…
Commentary: Anne Arundel Community College carrying forward to meet community needsCapital Gazette These are unprecedented times, which require unprecedented responses from the many organizations supporting our community and one another, writes Dawn Lindsay, president of…
Community college career and technical education (CTE) programs are increasingly committed to achieving equity goals and are finding creative ways to do so, according to a new MDRC report. MDRC’s Center for Effective CTE evaluated…
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) is making available $42.5 million in Youth Apprenticeship Readiness grants to support youth apprentices in registered apprenticeship programs (RAPs). “These apprenticeship grants offer communities the opportunity to make targeted…
Campuses are empty. Some students are dropping classes and others are dropping out of sight. The usual guideposts that community colleges use to measure success for themselves and their students — like retention and graduation…
How the last recession affected higher education. Will history repeat? Hechinger Report Community college enrollment surged after the 2008 downturn. Stripped of graduation and end-of-year rituals, new generation of college seniors instead face dismal job…
The COVID-19 pandemic has required community colleges to shift from in-person instruction to online and virtual instruction for most classes. Colleges were forced to make this transition in just a few days. It is too…
The U.S. Education Department (ED) last week released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) on distance education, the credit hour, competency-based education and other items falling under the general category of “innovation.” The rules…