Nearly 700 students earned degrees and certificates this spring at Western Nevada College (WNC), marking the largest graduating class in the history of the college. For a small rural community college serving more than 12,000…
The American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) is among a group of higher education organizations supporting a Senate bill that they say is “one of the most significant opportunities in decades” to modernize the nation’s…
What would make a talented 22-year-old raised in rural North Carolina choose to build a career close to home? I would argue our community colleges may be at the center of that decision. When a…
Community colleges have long been engines of opportunity. Every day, they prepare students to become nurses, teachers, entrepreneurs, engineers, public servants and business leaders. Yet colleges do something else that deserves equal attention. They prepare…
Colleges are on the hook for federal aid distributed to fraudulent applicants, according to the Education Department (ED). In a July 17 document that answers questions related to its new real-time FAFSA fraud detection initiative,…
A new national survey finds that two-year colleges receive higher positive ratings than four-year institutions on six of seven attributes measured, from access to workforce preparation. Traditionally, community colleges have done better in public opinion…
Three years after Texas reinvented how community colleges earn state funding to reward them for getting more students to graduation, the schools are delivering. But the colleges are short the millions they planned to receive…
Education officials have had high hopes for this month’s launch of the long-awaited Workforce Pell program. For the first time ever, students attending short-term vocational programs in fields like healthcare support and the skilled trades…
Eighteen community colleges are joining a popular workforce development program funded by the foundation of the rock band Metallica. All Within My Hands (AWMH) recently announced the eighth year of its Metallica Scholars Initiative (MSI)…
For more than a century, community colleges have responded to major economic shifts, continually redefining their role in preparing America’s workforce. They expanded during industrialization, adapted to the rise of advanced manufacturing, embraced the information…