Reporter’s notebook
Summer discounts and more A growing number of community colleges are offering discounts for summer courses, with one Texas college deciding to offer free tuition to many students for the summer term. Several of the…
Campus Issues
ED expands Second Chance Pell pilot program
The U.S. Education Department (ED) is expanding a pilot program to allow certain inmates to use Pell grants for their postecondary education. It is inviting another 45 public two-year institutions to participate. On Friday, the…
Funding roundup
In Illinois, Waubonsee Community College’s Small Business Development Center (SBDC) will use a $10,000 grant from the First National Bank of Omaha to provide bilingual business advisory services. “This grant would be tremendous at…
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Washington college president tackles new challenges during pandemicMyEdmondsNews.comAs the region grapples with the aftermath, Edmonds College President Amit Singh is putting his expertise in economics to work as a member of Snohomish County’s new Economic…
Reporter’s notebook
Growing HSIs Forty-three percent of the nation’s Hispanic-serving institutions (HSIs) are public two-year colleges, according to new analysis from Excelencia in Education. Of the 538 HSIs in the U.S. in 2018-19, 231 were public two-year…
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Community colleges could see a surge in popularity amid COVID-19CNBC“Under the circumstances, families may turn to us as the gateway of opportunity, and we’ve been ready,” says Michael Baston, president of Rockland Community College in…
Teaching winemaking in the vineyard, virtually
With a video camera strapped to his head, Paul Brock stood alone in a lab in the Viticulture and Wine Center at Finger Lakes Community College (FLCC) on a recent weekday afternoon. He instructed his…
Student journalists keep working through the crisis
Ben Levitt is a senior reporter for the College VOICE, the student newspaper of Mercer County Community College (MCCC). He’s been covering COVID-related actions taken by the New Jersey college prior to the statewide closure…
Food, housing insecurity among college athletes
Two-year college athletes are more likely to experience food insecurity and homelessness than athletes at four-year colleges and universities, according to a new survey. The Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice at Temple University…
Washington Watch: ED releases additional stimulus funds, guidance
The U.S. Education Department (ED) on Tuesday released the institutional share of the formula grants that the CARES Act provides to colleges, along with guidance about how those funds can be used. ED also released…