For years, Dan Horine, an automated manufacturing instructor at Virginia Western Community College, has searched for more affordable equipment to teach mechatronics in high schools. Madeline PattonMadeline Patton is an education writer based in Ohio.More…
The U.S. Education Department (ED) is considering only partially forgiving federal loans for students defrauded by for-profit colleges, according to department officials, abandoning the Obama administration’s policy of erasing that debt. Associated PressCopyright 2018 The…
Community colleges are key to increasing diversity in technology, yet transfer rates in computer science (CS) tend to lag compared to other programs. Ellie Ashfordis associate editor of Community College Daily.More Posts – Website
As she shared the promising results of her biomaterials research, Jin Kim Montclare dazzled her audience at the 2017 Advanced Technological Education (ATE) Principal Investigators Conference with stories about the educators who mentored her and…
Can you imagine moving from one stranger’s home to another stranger’s home throughout most of your adolescent years? What about transferring to three or more different schools in one academic year multiple times? Ralph Murphy…
The College Promise movement — which focuses on providing a free community college education to qualifying students — continues to gain traction, according to an annual update from the two-year-old College Promise Campaign. Daily StaffCCDaily…
On average, available student aid and tax deductions continue to fully cover tuition and fees of full-time community college students, according to the annual College Board study of college pricing trends. Daily StaffCCDaily is published…
Making baccalaureates the minimum degree requirement for even entry-level jobs is, in part, feeding the shortage of skilled workers in the cybersecurity industry, a panel of higher education and business and industry leaders told lawmakers…
Mike Russo set an ambitious goal for the principal investigators of National Science Foundation-funded Advanced Technological Education (ATE) projects and centers who he addressed Monday evening in Washington, D.C. Madeline PattonMadeline Patton is an education…
As Congress looks to scale up successful career and technical education (CTE) programs as part of its effort to reauthorize the Perkins Act, California could serve as a model. Ellie Ashfordis associate editor of Community…