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Supporting the mental health needs of rural students

According to a report from the Association of Community College Trustees, roughly 3.4 million students currently attend rural community colleges in the United States. Couple that fact with data from 2021 that shows 50% of…


Reflections and thoughts about the future

The announcements have rolled out at a startling pace, from Oregon to Maryland and everywhere in between. Around the United States, community college presidents are retiring. In some ways, the departures have been expected. The…


Stand out in online education once again

The online instructor was once a unicorn. They delved into professional development and obsessed over learning every new update to a learning management system. They could engage students miles away at any hour of the…


Adding culturally responsive strategies into STEM

Focusing on students’ assets rather than their deficits is a critical aspect of the culturally responsive instructional strategies that seven SUNY Westchester Community College (SUNY WCC) faculty members added to their teaching repertoire this past…


Everybody is a leader

Collaborative leadership is becoming more common in community colleges and other organizations, replacing traditional top-down approaches to management — and for good reasons. In leveraging the ideas of a broad range of people, collaborative leadership…


CHESS prepares move toward one, shared system

A unique collaboration by community colleges and four-year institutions in New Mexico linking key internal functions and student services is offering participants a new perspective on their operations, officials say, and a look at how…


Colleges share lessons from HEERF spending

Federal Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund (HEERF) dollars created opportunities for colleges to not only help students during the pandemic, but also innovate and create long-term solutions. The pandemic has had a “crippling effect” on…


Washington Watch: ED releases proposed Title IX regulations

The U.S. Department of Education (ED) today released its long-anticipated proposed regulations to implement Title IX, which bans sex discrimination in educational programs. The proposed regulations would substantially alter regulations implemented by the Trump administration…



Getting hacked — and then what?

In early January 2021, Mott Community College (MCC) in Flint, Michigan, faced every institution’s worst cybersecurity nightmare: its network was breached and taken down, users were effectively locked out, and sensitive information was compromised. “This…