Associate degree or short-term credential programs remain the most popular pathways among adults who have stopped out of college and those who have never enrolled, according to an annual report by Gallup and Lumina Foundation…
Ohio college leader disagrees with study calling community colleges ‘a waste of time’ WTOV Eastern Gateway Community College President Michael Geoghegan disagrees with a recent Associated Press article that inferred community colleges are a “waste…
Editor’s note: This new weekly update from the government relations office at the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) provides the latest on what’s happening in Washington and how AACC is advancing policies to support…
The U.S. Education Department (ED) will soon begin accepting requests from colleges who need an extra year to spend remaining allotted funding from the Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund (HEERF) provided during the Covid pandemic….
Citadel founder and CEO Kenneth C. Griffin has provided a $20 million gift to Miami Dade College (MDC) in Florida to increase access and opportunity for MDC students. Griffin’s gift is the largest single philanthropic…
Updated guidance to serve former inmates DOL awards grants for pre-apprenticeships Updated guidance to serve former inmates The U.S. Education Department (ED) has updated its guidance for colleges that serve formerly incarcerated individuals. The 2023…
Clock ticks on college Covid relief dollars Politico’s Weekly Education The Biden administration as soon as this week could begin accepting requests from colleges for extra time to spend their share of federal Covid relief…
In teaching online and hybrid classes for nearly a dozen years, Blinn College English professor Becky Almany spotted a curious trend. It wasn’t the content that often tripped up students in her courses. It was…
CEOs on the move William Wainwright, who has served for seven years as chancellor of Northshore Technical Community College (NTCC) in Louisiana, has been named the next president of Southeastern Louisiana University. During his tenure…
There is a group of tiny homes on Jackson College‘s Central Campus known as Jets Village. The village at the Michigan college was created in 2021 to help accommodate families, including single parents, trying to…