While states and localities are increasingly adopting Promise scholarships to make college more affordable for lower-income Americans, not all of them are as effective as they can be. Ellie Ashfordis associate editor of Community College…
CEO obituary Robert Judson, Jr., who served as the second president of Pasco-Hernando State College (PHSC) and was the first African-American to serve as president of a Florida community college, passed away on September 17….
The Illinois Community College Board (ICCB) this week unveiled a new statewide billboard campaign aimed at the nearly 1.3 million Illinois’ adults who have less than a high school diploma or equivalent and close to…
Commentary: Free college for all will power our 21st-century economy and empower our democracy Brookings.com (blog) Imagine making the first two years of college free for every American willing to put in the effort, work…
A growing number of community colleges over the years have started using alternatives to a single, standardized placement test to determine if students can do college-level work. Now a new study supports that such alternative…
An Intro to Business book costs $121, but McHenry County College (MCC) students pay zero for it this fall semester thanks to the Illinois college’s textbook reduction program. Donna Bieschkeis a marketing communications specialist at…
Local community colleges create workforce consortium Albany Times Union Five community colleges in the Albany, New York, region this week launched a new workforce development coalition to pool resources to better tackle the labor shortage…
The wind and rain of Hurricane Florence may have subsided but many parts of North and South Carolina now face damaging floods. As a result of rising waters and power lines downed by the storm,…
Policy & advocacy Federal funding update Congressional negotiators have approved the final version of the fiscal year 2019 Labor, HHS and Education (LHHS) appropriations bill, and the news is mostly good for community colleges. The…
How the Great Recession turned America’s student-loan problem into a $1.5T crisis MarketPlace Ten years after the start of the financial collapse, Americans of all types are saddled with student debt that’s holding them back…