The U.S. Education Department on Wednesday announced 19 new grant awards totaling $25 million through the first-ever Perkins-funded Career Connected High Schools (CCHS) grant program. Community colleges are the grantees in four of the awards….
NEW ORLEANS — The billions of dollars that the federal government is investing in a multitude of economic development efforts are starting to flow, but the job isn’t done. In fact, it won’t succeed if…
Survey: Growing competition in the training field Colorado initiative to help businesses, workers get back on track Slow progress on comprehensive learner records House bill pitches rural workforce development grants Massachusetts college opens Scholarship Resource…
Welding students at Ohio’s Lakeland Community College will benefit from a $150,000 grant from the Jerome T. Osborne and Georgeanne S. Osborne Charitable Trust. The grant will create an endowed scholarship in welding in the…
North Carolina’s Central Piedmont Community College received a $48,000 grant from the Duke Energy Foundation to support the college’s utility line worker program. Central Piedmont announced the creation of its lineworker program in late 2022…
As president of Augusta Technical College in Georgia, Jermaine Whirl already had partnerships in place with local businesses, government agencies and nonprofit organizations to strengthen workforce development opportunities in his community. But what the city…
Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-North Carolina), chair of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, on Thursday released the College Cost Reduction Act (CCRA, H.R. 6951), which contains far-reaching proposals for what is designed to…
Workforce development is synonymous with community colleges in most parts of the country — but what about economic development? For many, two-year colleges’ role in local or state-wide workforce development implies their role in economic…
Holyoke Community College (HCC) will use a $600,000 grant from the Irene E. and George A. Davis Foundation to expand its Itsy Bitsy Child Watch program to serve more student-parents. Itsy Bitsy Child Watch is…
In an effort to boost college enrollment and completion rates among students in rural areas, the U.S. Education Department (ED) is awarding $44.5 million in grants to 22 higher education institutions, including eight community colleges…