In Illinois, students and instructors involved in Highland Community College’s agriculture program were on hand to receive $5,000 from Vita Plus Corporation. The donation will support the dairy judging program and the purchase of feed…
CCDaily chats with Jennifer Worth, senior vice president for workforce and economic development at the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC), about what community colleges can expect next year regarding workforce issues from federal government…
OTC requests tax hike to build training center for high-paying technical jobs Springfield News-Leader (with video) To establish the Center for Excellence for Advanced Manufacturing and Technology — and significantly expand technical and allied health…
Based on performance: More than half of states allocate funds to their public two-year colleges based on the institutions’ performance. (Read full PDF.) AACC StaffMore Posts – Website
President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the civil rights office in the Education Department says he’ll enforce the nation’s antidiscrimination policy in schools, including for LGBTQ students. Associated PressCopyright 2018 The Associated Press. All rights…
MCC marine biology program making waves Wicked Local Bedford In Massachusetts, students at Middlesex Community College were recently featured on the ABC program “Sea Rescue” (see video, below) highlighting the school’s marine biology program and…
Until Erwin Trejo turned 18, he spent four years in and out of juvenile hall and drug rehabilitation. He served time for robbery and violent crime. Allura GarisAllura Garis is a freelance writer at the…
When it comes to endowments, community colleges aren’t necessarily known for having huge coffers. The National Association of College and University Business OfficersNACUBO is a membership organization representing more than 2,100 colleges and universities across…
To solve the diversity drought in software engineering, look to community colleges Motherboard Community college computer science classes teach the fundamentals, broad concepts like data structures, algorithmic complexity and object-oriented programming. Community college consolidation would…
The federal government recently released a new set of student outcome measures that are an improvement over traditional graduation rate metrics but still fall short of the data needed to better understand community college student…