The House Education and Labor Committee on Wednesday heard from education advocates on how dual-enrollment programs and competency-based education (CBE) can reduce college costs for students, among other benefits. But to run effectively, such programs…
Education and earnings: Earnings increase with education levels, but they also increase based on the selected discipline. (Read the PDF.) AACC StaffMore Posts – Website
Apple, HCC train teachers how to teach coding Houston Chronicle Lisa Jackson, the Apple senior vice president in charge of the company’s educational efforts, said Houston was chosen as the first city for the initiative…
New CEOs Arturo Reyes will become superintendent/president at Rio Hondo College (California). He is currently superintendent/president of the Mendocino-Lake Community College District, which he has led since 2013. Prior to Mendocino, Reyes served as executive…
Policy & advocacy ED expected to nix gainful employment regulation The U.S. Education Department (ED) is expected to publish in late June or early July a final regulation to eliminate the so-called “gainful employment” rule,…
Many believe that apprenticeships can be a solution to our nation’s workforce and education challenges — from eliminating the student debt crisis and increasing student completion rates, to closing the skills gap and resolving racial…
Millions of adults lack basic reading skills needed for good jobs PBS NewsHour/Education Week (video) In the U.S., 36 million adults lack the basic literacy skills needed to sustain employment — yet education programs for this…
Those who picture a “gray-haired, white, heterosexual male” when they are about to meet a community college president are not necessarily wrong, but the assumption is increasingly out of date in 2019. Ed FinkelEd Finkel…
2020 race brings free college back to the national stage Associated Press The free college movement is resurfacing as a central rallying point for Democrats as they set their sights on the White House. GM,…
For community colleges trying to retain every student, summer is a precarious season when many high school graduates who plan to enroll in the fall don’t follow through. Current students who take the summer off,…