Community colleges have long been engines of opportunity. Every day, they prepare students to become nurses, teachers, entrepreneurs, engineers, public servants and business leaders. Yet colleges do something else that deserves equal attention. They prepare…
Facing political attack and falling enrollment, colleges take the fight to … each other Hechinger Report Competition is intensifying among institutions and recruiters for a dwindling pool of students. But, AACC President and CEO DeRionne…
A new national survey finds that two-year colleges receive higher positive ratings than four-year institutions on six of seven attributes measured, from access to workforce preparation. Traditionally, community colleges have done better in public opinion…
Three years after Texas reinvented how community colleges earn state funding to reward them for getting more students to graduation, the schools are delivering. But the colleges are short the millions they planned to receive…
Education officials have had high hopes for this month’s launch of the long-awaited Workforce Pell program. For the first time ever, students attending short-term vocational programs in fields like healthcare support and the skilled trades…
Eighteen community colleges are joining a popular workforce development program funded by the foundation of the rock band Metallica. All Within My Hands (AWMH) recently announced the eighth year of its Metallica Scholars Initiative (MSI)…
New data shows how California’s Black-Serving Institutions are performing Inside Higher Ed The state added the BSI designation two years ago. Now, new research reveals heartening numbers on Black student attainment, as well as some…
A new report highlights how community colleges can quickly increase enrollment in “high-value programs” that lead to good jobs and decrease enrollment in “low-opportunity” programs that don’t. The report from the Community College Research Center…
Making guided pathways work: How one community college scaled up and improved its approach Chronicle of Higher Education North Carolina’s Stanly Community College hired one part-time employee to try something new: one-to-one professional advising for…
For more than a century, community colleges have responded to major economic shifts, continually redefining their role in preparing America’s workforce. They expanded during industrialization, adapted to the rise of advanced manufacturing, embraced the information…