The Aspen Institute on Wednesday announced the 150 community colleges eligible to compete for its $1 million 2019 Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence — including nearly 60 colleges that weren’t eligible for the 2017…
National Manufacturing Day is all about celebrating manufacturing and inspiring future manufacturers. A number of community colleges opened their doors to the community to show off their training facilities, get people interested in careers in…
A new report emphasizes the benefits of part-time students adding more courses — even just one — in helping them persist and complete a credential. Daily StaffCCDaily is published by the American Association of Community…
Lynette Cervantes recounts the time a scantily clad young girl knocked on the door of her truck cab at an Albany, N.Y., truck stop. The temperature outside was 20 degrees. Michael Bratten, Lynette Cervantes, John…
When Michael Reader opened a new 45,0000-square-foot facility for his family-owned precision manufacturing company in Elkhorn, Wisconsin, in 2000, he fully expected to see a line of job applicants outside his door. That didn’t happen….
Serving CTE: Nearly 90 percent of certificates and half of associate degrees awarded at community colleges are in career and technical education. (Read full PDF.) AACC StaffMore Posts – Website
Clint Day is one of those students who hopes to walk out of Richland College (Texas) with an associate degree and straight into a full-time job. Debra DennisDebra Dennis is the senior news manager at…
While it recognizes that federal regulations are necessary, the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) has flagged a few of them as particularly overburdensome for its member colleges, which can unduly present compliance issues for…
Pennsylvania’s Butler County Community College (BC3) has received a $1 million commitment from Janice Phillips Larrick, matching the two highest gifts in the college’s 52-year history and representing the third such donation in the past…
Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the nation’s first tuition-free college program for students at two-year and four-year public schools will pay the bill for about 22,000 New York students in its first year. Associated PressCopyright 2018…