Funding roundup
Holyoke Community College (HCC) has received the largest donation in the Massachusetts college’s 74-year history – $7.5 million – which also may be the largest donation to a public two-year college in the state. The…
Campus Issues
Higher ed community mourns Alfredo de los Santos
The community college world lost a major trailblazer with the passing of Alfredo de los Santos, Jr., on March 8. He was 84. De los Santos was the first president of El Paso Community College…
Similar approaches for dealing with COVID-19
A growing number of community colleges are rolling out plans to limit the potential exposure of students, faculty and staff to the coronavirus that include halting in-person classes and shifting them online, as well as…
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Bill to let community colleges offer 4-year degrees quashed by Arizona Senate panel Arizona Daily Star On a 6-3 vote this week, the Arizona Senate Education Committee nixed legislation that would have allowed these colleges…
Building an entrepreneurial ecosystem
I sometimes refer to spurring entrepreneurial growth as an experience. The table is set, your guests are seated, and entrepreneurship is on the menu. Whether it is your first time or you are highly experienced,…
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Clinton Community College looks to kickstart inmate education program WCAX Clinton Community College in New York wants back into the prison system. It’s looking to offer schooling to county prisons for the first time since…
IRAPs rule stays much the same
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) will keep as is much of its proposal for an alternative program to registered apprenticeships, which has renewed concerns about the potential for unscrupulous activities, especially among for-profit organizations….
A behind-the-signs story
The new year brought new Metropolitan Community College (MCC) signs to highways and interstates around Kansas City. Ho-hum. Right? Actually, it was an undertaking so complicated, it required a new state law to make it…
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More than 20 colleges cancel in-person classes in response to coronavirus NPR More than 20 U.S. colleges have canceled in-person classes due to coronavirus, including a cluster of community colleges in Washington state. Community colleges…
AACC cancels convention
As a precaution to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) has canceled its 100th Annual Convention scheduled for this month. “Our primary concern has been, and will always…