As more community colleges announce their fall enrollments, the figures seem to support our initial report that it may be a promising term for two-year colleges. Many community colleges are seeing modest increases, with some…
Flexibility was the word of the day at Wednesday’s House hearing on ways to revamp the nation’s main workforce development legislation. The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), last reauthorized in 2014, doesn’t provide the…
At the height of the Covid pandemic in 2020, many graduating high school students decided to hold off enrolling in college. A new report indicates many of them still haven’t done so. While the rate…
Mentor-Connect now offers mentoring to community college faculty who have not had Advanced Technological Education (ATE) grants, even if their college has previously had awards from this National Science Foundation (NSF) program. The program pairs…
Since 2022, the Alabama Community College System (ACCS) has administered its Skills for Success program through which Alabama community colleges across the state train employees in new careers. The training comprises self-paced online instruction followed…
Not long ago, Middlesex Community College (MCC) student Maddy Fadden needed help finding a safe place to live. Going through peer mentorship training at the Massachusetts college both directed Fadden to the proper resources and…
An early childhood education program at Reading Area Community College (RACC) in Pennsylvania looks to improve the skills and successes of Latino workers in those jobs. A community health worker program at Chicago’s Richard J….
There’s no better place to see the transformative potential of postsecondary education than the community college, where Black learners like Tommy McCall, a 2023 Tallahassee Community College graduate and an Achieving the Dream DREAM Scholar,…
The odds were long, but in August 2022 a consortium led by Dallas College emerged as one of only 32 worker-centered, industry-led workforce training partnerships in the nation to receive a multimillion federal grant to…
The rate of transitions among community colleges’ top leaders — whether retiring, moving to another college or becoming a first-time CEO — has slowed since its peak seven years ago, but that may change within…