Rising costs for food, housing, transportation and other necessities are making it harder for Latino students to stay enrolled and complete college, according to a new UnidosUS report. The organization says these challenges are particularly…
A $1 million grant from the Wells Fargo Foundation will expand access to construction education at Metropolitan Community College (MCC) in Nebraska. The grant includes $750,000 for improvements supporting construction education and $250,000 in scholarships…
A $82,661 grant to North Idaho College (NIC) from the Idaho Department of Lands Urban and Community Forestry Program will help to restore trees lost during recent windstorms and strengthen the college’s campus tree canopy….
Several large-scale, workforce-focused projects led by or involving community colleges have received word over the past week of major federal investments. Most of the funding comes from the U.S. Commerce Department and the National Science…
Southeastern Community College (SCC) has received a $100,000 donation from the Columbus County Home Builders Association (CCHBA). The gift will be split among its technical programs and primarily used to improve classrooms and purchase new…
A new donor collaborative is committing $7 million to postsecondary education innovation. Eight education foundations have joined forces to launch the Innovative Postsecondary Models (IPM) Fund to invest in organizations demonstrating that postsecondary education can be…
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…
Representatives from Hyundai Motor America this month delivered a $10,000 check to Holyoke Community College (HCC) in Massachusetts to benefit the college’s food pantry. This is the fifth consecutive year Hyundai Motor America has donated…
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…