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…
Eighteen community colleges are joining a popular workforce development program funded by the foundation of the rock band Metallica. All Within My Hands (AWMH) recently announced the eighth year of its Metallica Scholars Initiative (MSI)…
Rep. Zach Nunn (R-Iowa) was at Iowa Western Community College’s Atlantic Rural Center last week to announce a $900,000 federal investment to expand skilled-trades labs at both the Atlantic and Clarinda Rural Centers. “This investment…
As Senate appropriators draft their fiscal year (FY) 2027 funding bill for education and workforce development programs, community college advocates are urging them to review the House’s appropriations bill and “retain the positive aspects,” while…
When Southeast Community College in Nebraska decided to rethink its alumni publication, the marketing and communications team didn’t start with a design concept or a new name. They started with a question: “What do our…
The Workforce Pell program, launching on July 1, faces a serious implementation problem. The accountability infrastructure it needs to distinguish between programs that open doors and programs that merely collect tuition doesn’t yet exist at…
Sen. Chair John Boozman (R-Arkansas), chair of the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee, this week released a proposal to reauthorize the Farm Bill, which governs the Department of Agriculture (USDA) programs. While the most…
Lower interest rate for auto pay loan repayments Expansion of several successful SUNY programs Wisconsin college launches new apprenticeship programs Lower interest rate for auto pay loan repayments The U.S. Education Department (ED) on Thursday…