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New England colleges team to aid green workforce

Four colleges in three New England states are working together to train students and make it easier for them to create programs for their region’s growing green building and resilient design industries. Associated PressCopyright 2018…


75,000 apply for N.Y. free-tuition program

About 75,000 people who applied for New York’s first-in-the-nation tuition-free college program are finding out whether they will start the fall semester without a tuition bill to pay. Associated PressCopyright 2018 The Associated Press. All…


Bill would expand services for veterans

The American Association of Community Colleges and five other higher education organizations are supporting a House bill that would strengthen and expand higher education benefits for veterans and their families. Daily StaffCCDaily is published by…


House committee passes funding bill

The House Appropriations Committee on Wednesday passed along party lines a broad-ranging fiscal year 2018 funding bill that mirrors what its education and labor panel passed last week. The big cuts for programs affecting community…


Getting in sync

Community college presidents and board members come and go. But a major driver of the continued success of two-year colleges is how fruitfully the relationships between CEOs and their boards evolve over time — from…


A quick look at revenue sources, demographics

State funding comprises 31.3 percent of community college revenues, according to a new community college fact sheet from the American Association of Community Colleges. That’s a slight bump up from 29.8 percent reported in AACC’s…


Learning to be a leader

For many community college presidents, the presidency is the culmination of a longstanding career ambition, marked by ceremonies and celebrations. Yet leadership development is a never-ending process of informal and formal learning experiences. Barbara Viniaris…


Better than Trump’s budget, but….

A House appropriations panel on Thursday passed a spending bill for the next fiscal year that would trim several programs important to community colleges, but lawmakers on both sides of the aisle indicated they’re open…


Fight flares in Ariz. over tuition for young immigrants

A former Arizona lawmaker known as the driving force behind most of the state’s toughest immigration laws is moving to challenge the university system for temporarily allowing young immigrants protected from deportation to keep paying…


Finding skilled workers for 6M available jobs

One of the reasons for the widening gap between the number of available jobs and qualified employees is an overemphasis on bachelor’s degrees as the only postsecondary path, according to David Harrison, president of Columbus…