Congressional appropriators on Monday released all 12 compromise appropriations bills (packaged into two larger bills) that will fund the federal government through the remainder of fiscal year (FY) 2020. Jim HermesJim Hermes is associate vice…
Fall enrollment at community colleges continues to drop — though at a slower rate — but there’s some good news: the number of first-time postsecondary students who attend public two-year colleges is up. Matthew DembickiMatthew…
Editor’s note: Mark Mitsui, president of Portland Community College, and Wim Wiewel, president of Lewis & Clark College, participated this month in the Conference of the Parties 25 in Madrid, which was related to the…
If community college leaders are going to realize their main objectives – increasing student retention, graduation and course completion – they must ensure that student services are well-organized and adequately staffed and funded. Ellie Ashfordis…
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s proposed budget will include $145 million over the biennium to make tuition-free community college available to low- and middle-income students who pursue jobs in high-demand fields. It also would provide grants…
With a rare show of bipartisan cooperation, legislation that would, in part, simplify the federal student aid application process for students and families is on its way to the president for him to sign into…
Motivated high school students in Kentucky’s Appalachian region can move into healthcare apprenticeships, allowing them to earn while they learn, thanks to the K-Tech pilot program overseen by Hazard Community and Technical College (HCTC). Ellie Ashfordis…
“Welcome to the community,” is how Ellen Hause introduced the new cohort of 10 MentorLinks colleges to the mentoring they will receive during the next two years. Madeline PattonMadeline Patton is an education writer based…
The completion rate of public two-year college students has reached 40 percent for the first time since the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) Research Center started tracking such data. Daily StaffCCDaily is published by the American…
When Kelsey Stewart graduated with her degree in communications and social influence from the University of Maryland, College Park, she knew she wanted to help communities better understand each other by engaging in meaningful activism….