Newsmakers
New CEOs Jacqueline Screws is now president of Chattahoochee Valley Community College (CVCC) in Alabama. Screws has more than three decades of experience in education administration and student affairs. Most recently, she was dean of…
Campus Issues
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Community colleges are changing the way we develop our workforce West Virginia Public Broadcasting (with audio) According to the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission, jobs in manufacturing, IT and health care are all in…
Funding roundup
Arkansas State University-Mountain Home (ASUMH) student nurses will have an opportunity to get more hands-on experience, thanks to a $63,296 grant from the Blue & You Foundation. The college will use the to purchase an…
Closing the skills gap through work-based learning
NEW ORLEANS — If business and industry are able to address the shortage of “middle-skills” jobs, collaboration with community colleges is necessary to ensure new employees have the right skills. Ellie Ashfordis associate editor of…
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Why the state is talking up technical colleges to high school counselors WPLN Tennessee has put a spotlight on its community colleges in recent years, making these higher education institutions the focus of programs like…
A ‘dream’ opening for an Ore. college’s newest center
On January 22, a long-held dream undocumented of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) students studying at Portland Community College (PCC) came true. James HillJames Hill is director of public relations at Portland Community College…
Lone Star sends ‘right signals’ on oil rig jobs
NEW ORLEANS — Students who complete the oil and gas drilling program at Lone Star College in Texas have the skills and behavioral attributes sought by employers. Ellie Ashfordis associate editor of Community College Daily.More…
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Community colleges to ask legislature for $32M My Columbia Basin In Oregon, 17 community colleges will ask the state legislature to allocate to them an additional $32 million in the short legislative session to help…
AACC, DOL to work together on apprenticeships
NEW ORLEANS — Both the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) and the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) agree that apprenticeship programs are critical to reducing the skills gap and ensuring a path to family-sustaining…
DataPoints
Graduates who borrowed: The number of public two-year college graduates who took out loans to cover college costs increased from 22 percent in 2000 to 36 percent in 2012. (Read full PDF.) AACC StaffMore Posts…