Two Texas colleges in the Dallas County Community College District will provide training for Dallas-area workers with grants from the Texas Workforce Commission. Mountain View College received a $429,573 Skills Development Grant to partner with…
The House Committee on Education and the Workforce on Friday released a 542-page bill to reauthorize the Higher Education Act that would significantly change federal student aid, such as allowing students to tap Pell grants…
Congress is under intense pressure — on taxes, funding and DACA — as the first legislative session of the 115th Congress turns into its final month, while, after years of deliberation, legislative action on reauthorizing…
Editor’s note: MentorLinks mentees began planning their two-year projects with mentors at a two-day meeting in Washington, D.C., in October. The American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) convened the meeting and awarded grants to the…
Massachusetts’ Holyoke Community College (HCC) can expand its catalog of Learning Community (LC) courses, thanks to a $100,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). These inter-institutional courses are offered in partnership with…
Ozarks Technical Community College’s (OTC) Veterans Day ceremony was extra special this year. The Missouri college announced it has received a $1.3 million U.S. Department of Education Veterans Upward Bound grant to help veterans access…
Free community college for all Mississippians would be an ambitious and easy-to-explain goal. What Gov. Phil Bryant again proposed last week in his budget recommendation appears more limited, aimed at producing more technical graduates from…
Wisconsin’s Madison College can fast track construction of the new South Campus thanks to a sizable contribution from Great Lakes Higher Education Corporation & Affiliates. At a recent news conference, Great Lakes President and CEO…
Gov. Rick Snyder has signed into law the expansion of a college scholarship program for high school students in high-poverty Michigan communities such as Flint, which continues to recover from a man-made water crisis. Associated…
Kentucky’s public colleges and universities want more money, but Republican lawmakers say the best they can hope for is to break even. Associated PressCopyright 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not…