Newsmakers
CEO Jeff Wagnitz, who has been serving as acting president of Highline College in Washington state since December 2016, has been named interim president. He said he is not running for the permanent presidency and…
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Kansas universities, colleges see mixed enrollment results Associated Press Recent data show that fall enrollment figures have increased among technical colleges in Kansas but have decreased for most state universities and community colleges. Local coalition…
Three $1M commitments in 3 years
Pennsylvania’s Butler County Community College (BC3) has received a $1 million commitment from Janice Phillips Larrick, matching the two highest gifts in the college’s 52-year history and representing the third such donation in the past…
New N.Y. free-tuition program covers 22K students
Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the nation’s first tuition-free college program for students at two-year and four-year public schools will pay the bill for about 22,000 New York students in its first year. Associated PressCopyright 2018…
More single moms are also college students
More single mothers are attending college, with most of them going to community college, according to a report from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR). Daily StaffCCDaily is published by the American Association of…
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Tennessee Board of Regents requests funding for four new initiatives Kingsport Times News The board has recommended $14.1 million to fund four priority requests for education, job-training and security initiatives across the state’s community and…
Four-year itch
When Ohio in late June became the latest state to let community colleges award four-year degrees, Clark State Community College President Jo Alice Blondin was ecstatic. Dennis PierceDennis Pierce is an education writer based in…
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Savannah Technical College to offer logistics certification with APICS partnership Savannah Morning News The emergence of Georgia Ports Authority as the fourth-largest and fastest-growing container port in the country has made logistics a household word…
Funding roundup
Minnesota’s Northland Community and Technical College (NCTC), in partnership with St. Cloud State University, has received a $600,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) Advanced Technological Education (ATE) grant. The institutions will work to advance geospatial information…
Serving as president during tumultuous times
The community college presidency represents an amazing opportunity to make a tremendous difference and impact in the community that the college serves. Kathleen Plinskeis campus president of the Osceola, Lake Nona and Poincinana campuses at…