Community colleges and other higher education institutions are known to partner with prisons to educate adult inmates, but they also work with juvenile justice centers to help incarcerated youths in a similar way. Angela Menneckeis…
Why do businesses like to team up with community colleges? Because they grasp what company partners need and respond quickly. Ellie Ashfordis associate editor of Community College Daily.More Posts – Website
The number of people served by North Carolina’s apprenticeship program increased by almost one-third in fiscal year 2019, according to a report from the North Carolina Community College System (NCCCS). Brian Longis communications director for…
Early participants of the guided pathways model to improve student success have taken various approaches to develop and implement their efforts for whole-college redesign, but they do share some common elements, according to a new…
Latinos continue to be underrepresented at public colleges and universities, especially among community colleges, according to a new report from The Education Trust (Ed Trust). Matthew DembickiMatthew Dembicki edits Community College Daily and serves as…
Police training programs at community colleges are a vital cog in ensuring that local law enforcement agencies have a steady supply of recruits who have not only the weapons training, legal knowledge and other traditional…
The U.S. needs to embrace postsecondary career and technical education (CTE) to create a robust pipeline for science and engineering jobs beyond those that require a baccalaureate — something that hasn’t been happening, according to…
Cheryl Gonzalez, chief diversity officer (CDO) at Florida’s Hillsborough Community College (HCC), says, “If you’re going to have strategies for diversity and equity, they should be embedded in a strategic plan, and the organization should…
Community college leaders are addressing equity issues on their campuses — from disaggregating data to get a better picture of who their students are, to eliminating certain programs that don’t lead to local jobs with family-sustaining…
Challenges in STEM: Between the 2008-09 and 2016-17 academic years, Hispanic students’ share of attaining sub-baccalaureate STEM credentials rose from 13 percent to 17 percent, while the share for black/African-American students decreased from 14 percent…