As a high school student dual enrolled at Trident Technical College in South Carolina, Shannon Brennan served as a youth apprentice at Cummins Turbo Technologies for four hours a day. Ellie Ashfordis associate editor of…
Jobs, workers are changing in Md. Herald-Mail Media Maryland has about 3,900 manufacturing companies and 60 percent are in some form of advanced manufacturing. Hagerstown Community College leaders and others discussed the changing workforce at…
College didn’t take at first for Diego Tibaquirá. Ed FinkelEd Finkel is an education writer based in Illinois.More Posts
Commentary: America’s education ‘deserts’ show limits of relaxing regulations on colleges New York Times The Urban Institute’s Matthew Chingos says the Trump administration’s plan to replace the gainful employment rules with “market-based accountability,” in which students…
Since graduating from Illinois Central College in December 2017 with associate degrees in secure software development, Khabran Peters and Branson Moreno have been working full time as software developers at ISHPI Information Technologies. This is…
The STEM advantage: In general, STEM occupations that require either baccalaureate or sub-baccalaureate credentials tend to pay, on average, 29 percent more than other disciplines. (Read the PDF.) AACC StaffMore Posts – Website
Promising results so far for Utah college’s free tuition program Deseret News Two years in, the Salt Lake Community College Promise is meeting its objectives of providing “life-altering” educational opportunities – and promoting college completion….
The unemployment rate for adults ages 25 and older with a disability is more than twice as high as that of adults of the same age without a disability (8 percent and 3 percent, respectively),…
NASA is helping students reach for the stars by awarding a total of $1.4 million to five community colleges through the Minority University Research and Education Project (MUREP). The colleges will establish new courses to…
The U.S. Education Department (ED) on Friday announced its proposal to rescind the so-called “gainful employment” (GE) regulations — a move that was much anticipated. Daily StaffCCDaily is published by the American Association of Community…