The U.S Education Department (ED) on Thursday released CARES Act institutional funding for Titles III and V of the Higher Education Act. At the same time, it allocated the bill’s institutional funding through the Fund…
Louisiana’s River Parishes Community College (RPCC) has received a $294,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant for advanced industrial instrumentation control technician education. With the funding, RPCC will develop a new curriculum for the industrial instrumentation…
House Education and Labor Committee Chairman Bobby Scott on Friday introduced the Relaunching America’s Workforce Act (RAWA), which would authorize $15 billion for several workforce development programs and provides them with additional flexibility to address…
In its latest announcement of available funding through the CARES Act, the U.S. Education Department (ED) on Thursday said it is providing another round of funds – nearly $1.4 billion – to minority-serving institutions (MSIs), as well as institutions…
Rural colleges adopting distance learning during the coronavirus pandemic face the same challenges as other two-year colleges, as well as some unique ones. In the short term, making sure all students have adequate computers and…
Summer discounts and more A growing number of community colleges are offering discounts for summer courses, with one Texas college deciding to offer free tuition to many students for the summer term. Several of the…
The U.S. Education Department (ED) is expanding a pilot program to allow certain inmates to use Pell grants for their postecondary education. It is inviting another 45 public two-year institutions to participate. On Friday, the…
In Illinois, Waubonsee Community College’s Small Business Development Center (SBDC) will use a $10,000 grant from the First National Bank of Omaha to provide bilingual business advisory services. “This grant would be tremendous at…
Twenty-two Senate Democrats and Independents want to include at least $15.1 billion for workforce development and career and technical education in the next coronavirus relief bill. It follows similar requests made to House leaders earlier…
The U.S. Education Department (ED) on Tuesday released the institutional share of the formula grants that the CARES Act provides to colleges, along with guidance about how those funds can be used. ED also released…