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Commentary: ‘So many students are already sleeping in their cars, homeless shelters or even on the street’ Hechinger Report Every day, as president of the student body at Los Angeles City College, Jemere Calhoun works…
Campus Issues
Updates on commencements, summer classes
With the end of the spring term quickly approaching, a wave of community colleges over the past few days has decided on how to handle commencements this spring, whether to continue running nearly all their…
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How community colleges are helping students in need during pandemic Daily Herald “It gives me a little more time,” Paola Castro, 25, says of a $400 grant from Oakton Community College in Des Plaines, Illinois,…
CARES Act funds will come in two waves
The U.S. Education Department (ED) will disburse stimulus funding to higher education institutions in two waves, with the first round of $6.3 billion designated specifically to help students in need going out immediately. ED on…
A look back on AACC
In 1920, 34 junior college leaders gathered in St. Louis, Missouri, for a meeting called by U.S. Commissioner of Education Philander Claxton to discuss the role of two-year colleges. They represented 22 of the nation’s…
Funding roundup
Evergreen Valley College (EVC) will use a $400,000 grant from the California State Chancellor’s Community College Mental Health Services Program to address the mental health needs of students. The California legislature approved $10 million of…
Reporter’s notebook
Gearing up for the next stimulus bill Higher education organizations — including the American Association of Community Colleges — are busy advocating for additional funding through another federal stimulus bill expected from Congress. In a…
Earned associate degrees trend down
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…
Newsmakers
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…
‘This is the time to do it’
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…