Funding roundup
In Texas, El Paso Community College (EPCC) will use a $327,501 National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to increase transfer and retention rates and research opportunities for students. The Rise to the Challenge Bridge project…
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Community colleges have duplicate free tuition plans San Diego Union-Tribune Some community college districts are facing an unexpected but not unwelcome problem following the passage of a state bill that partly duplicates their own efforts…
Miss. launches next push on college degree completion
Mississippi’s community colleges and universities are preparing to send 40,000 letters urging former students to check how close they are to a diploma. Daily StaffCCDaily is published by the American Association of Community Colleges.More Posts -…
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Growing manufacturers are trying to interest more high school students in careers Minneapolis Star Tribune Hundreds of the nearly 8,000 Minnesota manufacturers opened their doors this month to high school students thinking about careers making…
Calif. uses Perkins funds to create ‘ecosystem of intrapreneurs’
As Congress looks to scale up successful career and technical education (CTE) programs as part of its effort to reauthorize the Perkins Act, California could serve as a model. Ellie Ashfordis associate editor of Community…
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$234 million: OTC unveils economic impact on region, ponders tax increase Springfield News-Leader (with video) Chancellor Hal Higdon said he loves to hear how Ozarks Technical Community College (Missouri) has impacted the lives of individual students….
Students return to campus as staff
When Alma Lopez was a student at San Bernardino Valley College (SBVC) in California, she received guidance and encouragement from English instructor Dolores Moreno and counselor Laura Gomez. Paul Bratulinis director of marketing and public…
Connecting libraries, librarians to student success
Since 2013, North Carolina community colleges have been tracking performance measures focusing on students who need help to catch up and to keep up with their peers. A group of librarians wanted to identify and…
A little relief for student parents
More than 4.8 million undergraduate students in the United States are parents, and many of them are enrolled at community colleges. In fact, 17 percent of community college students are single parents. A lack of…
VA seeks ‘narrow’ exemption to for-profit college ethics law
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) will proceed with a narrow waiver to an ethics law banning VA employees from receiving benefits from for-profit colleges, saying most cases posed no actual conflicts of interest…