Showing what you value
While financial investment is one place to determine what a college deems important, it’s not the only indicator. Leaders’ time and attention, among other ways, also can show what a college values. A panel of…
Student success
Building social justice degree programs
In fall 2022, New Jersey’s Camden County College and Hudson County Community College (HCCC) launched social justice degree programs. With no template to work from, the colleges had to figure out how to effectively and…
Tuition/cost are important, but so are online options
Results from a survey by Anthology emphasize that tuition and cost, followed by location, are still the most important factors in selecting a college — and they are especially important for current and prospective community…
Raising our collective voices
With enrollment down, competition increasing from company training and university associate degree programs, and people’s perceptions of community colleges still lagging behind the robust reality of what they have to offer, how can those in…
Camping near her campus
Alexis Krug has a 4.0 grade-point average as a student in the physical therapist assistant career program at Butler County Community College (BC3), pays the college’s out-of-county tuition rate and expects to graduate from the…
Tackling mental health
Mental health is the next frontier for some community colleges, with Covid bringing into clearer focus the need to improve mental health services to help fulfill their mission of educating students. The Alamo Colleges District…
10 trends to watch in distance learning
As we all know, prior to the Covid pandemic, the growth of online enrollments at colleges and universities had been phenomenal. As late as 2019, online enrollments were on average 25% of overall community college…
Finding ways to fund dual enrollment
Schools, districts or states fund 78% of dual-enrollment programs in the U.S., according to a recent survey by the U.S. Education Department. The student or their families help foot the bill in 42% of the…
Senators note community colleges’ role in preparing healthcare workers
Community colleges weren’t represented at a Senate hearing Thursday on healthcare worker shortages, but they still were in the mix of the conversation. At the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee hearing, Sen….
Championing the Innovation Challenge
Diane Rhodes did not know anything about the Community College Innovation Challenge prior to Xavier Cotton, a student in her computer science courses at Front Range Community College, and Cristian Madrazo, asking her to mentor…