A dozen student teams from community colleges will participate in the final round of the Community College Innovation Challenge (CCIC), an annual national competition that asks two-year college student teams to develop STEM-based solutions to…
The hidden costs of transferring to a four-year college WGBH Some highly selective four-year colleges have policies that allow them to determine which credits count after a student enrolls. But others, like the University of…
Thirty-six-year-old Harry C. was born and raised in New York City. Like millions of other New Yorkers before him, he made some mistakes as a young adult. He later found his way to the social…
Responding to the U.S. Education Department’s (ED) solicitation for input on upcoming negotiated-rulemaking sessions, the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) has presented both live and written comments on the topics ED has identified. The…
Community colleges continue to be a popular destination for former college students who didn’t earn a credential but have returned to college, according to a new report. That goes for so-called “some college, no credential”…
Two groups give $30M to community college initiative in bid to cut degree race gap Detroit News Two influential foundations are giving a southeast Michigan initiative to improve access to local community colleges about $30…
New CEO Kathleen “Kat” Linaker will become president of Riverland Community College (Minnesota) on July 1. Linaker served as vice president of academics at Western Technical College (Wisconsin) from 2018 to 2022. Previously, she was…
Three decades ago, only the rare community college leader understood what the Internet was and even fewer had used Gopher and ARPANET, earlier forms of the medium that evolved into today’s World Wide Web. Today,…
In a tight labor market, technical training is everything Marketplace The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis observes in its new “Beige Book” report that investment in technical training has increased in its district. The…
The unique, wide-ranging apprenticeship program at Harper College in Illinois is thriving thanks to its broad reach and rigorous expectations across the board, officials say, and it’s paying off in several ways for the college…