In their May 12 AACC Digital conference presentation about the need for and value of short-term courses, Amardeep Kahlon and Kerry Mix will focus on the distinctive attributes of competency-based education (CBE), its value to…
President Joe Biden and First Lady Dr. Jill Biden visited a Virginia community college on Monday to promote two years of free community college and other parts of his $1.8 trillion American Families Plan. Meanwhile,…
In New York, community colleges seeking to bolster student success and center educational equity need not go it alone. Thanks to grants from Jobs for the Future (JFF) and its partners, institutions can work with…
Four years ago, the Trump administration touted soon-to-arrive $1 trillion bipartisan legislation that would add to and improve upon the nation’s roads, bridges, ports and other infrastructure. The legislation never materialized. But the need to…
Donald Strange, a 54-year-old public works employee and then manager, has worked on many roads during his 34-year career, but says that there was one particular road that obsessed him. It was a road not…
Spring undergraduate enrollment is down 5.9% compared to the same time last year, according to the latest research by the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) Research Center. This is the steepest decline in undergraduate enrollment since…
Free community college is a cornerstone of the Biden administration’s $1.8 trillion American Families Plan (AFP), which was officially announced today. The plan is designed to grow the middle class, expand the benefits of economic…
President Biden is reportedly considering including free community college tuition in his second infrastructure proposal. Research on College Promise programs has shown that free community college programs can lead more students to enroll. But to…
Athletics have restarted at many community colleges since pausing last year due to the pandemic. While there’s been a focus on the return of football, basketball and baseball, some lesser-celebrated sports are growing. Bowling, cross…
As community colleges work to prepare their students to transition to four-year programs and employment, they are finding new ways to allow them to earn credit for training that typically doesn’t count toward traditional degrees….