DataPoints: Community college revenues
More than half of the $62.3 billion in community college revenues in 2017-18 came from state and local dollars, with states providing one-third. As states expect to see a significant drop in their tax revenues…
Funding
Restoring state funding is key in recovery
New Jersey recovered economically, and – to some extent, emotionally – from 9/11, the Great Recession of 2009, and SuperStorm Sandy thanks in large part to the state’s community colleges. In the aftermath of those…
Funding roundup
Missouri’s Ozarks Technical Community College (OTC) has received a $500,000 donation from Emerson, a global technology and engineering company based in St. Louis. The gift is the first of what the OTC Foundation hopes will…
Heavy on workforce development
A new report calls on community colleges to focus more on workforce development to help displaced workers and others secure available jobs, especially as Americans have lost their jobs due to the pandemic. “The Indispensable…
Former ED secretary: Increase Pell, expand eligibility
During a four-hour House committee hearing Monday on widened racial inequities in education, health and the workforce during the pandemic, a former U.S. education secretary called on lawmakers to increase the Pell Grant maximum and…
Funding roundup
Mitchell Community College’s Huskins Library has received a $50,000 Library and Services Technology Act (LSTA) grant from the State Library of North Carolina. The grant will help to establish a flexible and multi-functional makerspace lab…
ED launches new workforce training grants for states
The U.S. Education Department on Friday announced a new CARES Act-funded grant program focused on short-term job training for in-demand occupations and entrepreneurship development. The CARES Act provided $307.5 million for discretionary grants, which Education…
Preparing for this fall — and beyond
Leaders of seven community college-based organizations on Thursday addressed an array of issues pertaining to the pandemic and equity, but two topics seemed to permeate through most of the discussion: Ensuring students have the technology…
Washington Watch: Yet more new ED guidance on CARES Act funding
The U.S. Education Department (ED) has issued yet further guidance addressing the formula grants under the CARES Act. However, this guidance is mostly good news for community colleges, particularly in how they may spend funds…
Judge blocks ED rule excluding certain college students from CARES Act grants
A federal judge on Wednesday issued a preliminary injunction that prevents the U.S. Education Department (ED) from imposing any student eligibility requirements in distributing CARES Act emergency grants to California community college students. U.S. District…