West Virginia lawmakers have begun considering free community and technical college during the first full week of their 2018 session. Associated PressCopyright 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published,…
Minnesota’s Leech Lake Tribal College (LLTC) will use a $100,000 grant to prepare students for environmental careers and to promote community engagement with environmental issues. The grant comes from the American Indian College Fund (AICF)…
California Gov. Jerry Brown wants to launch the state’s first fully online public community college that would provide short-term programs to help 2.5 million young adults without college credentials attain skills for available jobs in…
North Carolina’s Rowan-Cabarrus Community College announced a $2.7 million donation from local philanthropists, Fred and Alice Stanback. This is the second donation from the Stanbacks – and the largest gift ever to the college from…
Community college officials should be acutely aware of a proposal in the House bill to reauthorize the Higher Education Act (H.R. 4508, the “PROSPER” Act) that would require colleges to return substantial portions of federal…
In Illinois, Rock Valley College (RVC) received a $675,000 grant from the Dr. Louis and Violet Rubin Endowment of the Community Foundation of Northern Illinois. The purpose of the grant is to link talent with…
The tax bill passed by Congress on December 20 could further depress community college budgets at a time when other revenue sources are declining. Ellie Ashfordis associate editor of Community College Daily.More Posts – Website
In Kansas, Johnson County Community College is preparing for the largest campus transformation project in its history. That project got a boost recently with a $2 million donation from entrepreneur Hugh Libby. His donation will…
The House Education and the Workforce Committee on Tuesday began to mark up its bill to revamp the Higher Education Act, which kicked off with a partisan yet cordial tone. Matthew DembickiMatthew Dembicki edits Community…
In Illinois, students and instructors involved in Highland Community College’s agriculture program were on hand to receive $5,000 from Vita Plus Corporation. The donation will support the dairy judging program and the purchase of feed…