A dozen student teams from community colleges will participate in the final round of the Community College Innovation Challenge (CCIC), an annual national competition that asks two-year college student teams to develop STEM-based solutions to…
During a House appropriations hearing on Tuesday, the Biden administration’s request to increase funding for U.S. Education Department (ED) programs by 13% clashed with House Republicans’ call to cut federal spending by about 22%. During…
Lone Star College (LSC) is working with FedEx Freight to encourage more women to seek careers in the transportation industry. With a $3,000 donation, FedEx Freight established three FedEx Freight Empower Women in Transportation Scholarships…
To ensure greater equity among teaching students’ digital literacy — and to ensure that they can confidently and enthusiastically deliver such instruction to their diverse populations of students — the City University of New York…
For months, community college leaders have been looking for ways to tap into the vast resources that the federal government is pouring into infrastructure projects. For the most part, infrastructure funds will not flow directly…
A $2 million grant to the Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C) Foundation will help Tri-C grow innovative, accessible workforce training. The grant comes from the KeyBank Foundation and will fund crucial steps toward addressing northeast Ohio’s…
DENVER — State directors of community colleges covered a lot of ground at their spring meeting on Saturday, from dual-enrollment trends to hiring challenges, as well as updates on restarting Pell for incarcerated individuals and…
With a $350,000 grant, Kellogg Community College (KCC) will help revitalize the emergency medical services workforce in Michigan. The Emergency Medical Services Workforce grant, awarded by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, will…
Too often, discussions about college affordability focus solely on traditional college-age, full-time students who are pursuing a bachelor’s degree. But that excludes the millions of community college students who are adult learners attending part-time while…
Queens Borough President Donovan Richards was at LaGuardia Community College/CUNY on March 14 to announce $5.5 million in funding across Queens’ City University of New York (CUNY) colleges. LaGuardia will receive $2 million to modernize…