Though community colleges have increased their ability to prepare workers for STEM-related fields through various programs and partnerships, they are still underused and “unidentified” resources to strengthen the country’s STEM workforce, according to the president…
Northeastern Technical College (NETC) serves three counties in South Carolina with rural areas where internet access is either not available or too expensive. When the pandemic hit in spring 2020 and the campus’ buildings closed…
To promote STEM education (science, technology, engineering and math), several federal agencies — including the U.S. Education Department — recently announced a few STEM-related funding opportunities. In April, ED released two notices for fiscal year…
A new report by the Strada Education Network shows that many adults who planned to further their education have changed or dropped those plans over the course of the pandemic. To date, more than one-third…
San Antonio College (SAC), which is one of five colleges in the Alamo Colleges District in Texas, is the winner of the 2021 Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence. When SAC President Robert Vela was…
Two top-level U.S. Education Department (ED) officials on Monday provided some more insight on how the department will implement the $12 billion coming to community colleges through the American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act. In a…
Thousands of Michigan’s essential workers are now attending state community colleges tuition-free in pursuit of better jobs and higher pay. These new students are harnessing Futures for Frontliners, a Michigan scholarship program providing essential employees…
Howard Community College (HCC) in Maryland dove into its data to understand just where they were investing money and time and what the return on those investments was. HCC President Kathleen Hetherington was joined by…
Rapid changes in technology make it imperative that community colleges remain in close contact with business and industry. Takes cloud computing, for example. A few years ago, the required skills and workforce needs in cloud…
I wrote my sabbatical proposal in fall 2019, and when I found out it was approved, I was elated. My husband had surprised me that same fall with tickets to Italy for May, and we…