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…
The 2024-2025 Fulbright U.S. Scholar competition opened recently. It closes September 15. It was 20 years ago in fall 2003 that I was honored to participate in this program as a community college professor. The experience has greatly…
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…
As the fiscal year (FY) 2024 appropriations process gets underway in Congress, community colleges have the opportunity to request federal dollars for specific projects. Many senate offices have begun accepting “congressionally directed spending (CDS)” requests…
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…
Workforce programs at community colleges must be tied to local employment needs. That means forging partnerships in the community with employers and workforce development board. Melanie Anderson, executive vice president of the National Association of…
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…
Grayson College – like all colleges – is always searching for ways to advance student success. In looking at where students typically stall or stop out, a trend emerged: at around the ninth week of…
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….
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…