Combatting food insecurity on campus requires collaboration and ingenuity. Some colleges are going beyond the standard food pantry to ensure students have better access to the resources they need to focus and succeed. Food pantries…
New federal data suggest that hunger and homelessness among college students are more widespread than previously believed. As many as 4 million college students are wrestling with food insecurity — a factor associated with lower graduation rates —…
MiraCosta College has received two grants for more than $1.6 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to advance biotechnology and biomanufacturing education for diverse, underrepresented community college and high school students. “Through experiential learning,…
As a young boy, Flip Holt didn’t clearly understand the significance of his father’s involvement in founding Southwestern Community College (SCC) in North Carolina. W. Paul Holt, Jr., who died in 2018, was a founding…
With no signs of progress in crafting a bipartisan funding extension, a federal government shutdown looks all but inevitable starting October 1. The closure will affect government staffing, program administration and the distribution of public…
North Carolina businessman Mike Wade recently put the wheels in motion to create a $500,000 scholarship endowment at Southwestern Community College (SCC). It’s the single largest cash commitment in the SCC Foundation’s 50-year history. The…
Where to get a low-cost bachelor’s degree close to home and a job lead: Community college Los Angeles Times A growing number of California’s 116 community colleges are venturing into higher education territory traditionally reserved…
ED announces HSI grant recipients Service National Guard members ED announces HSI grant recipients The U.S. Education Department on Thursday announced it will award $37 million through 64 grants to colleges and institutions – including…
The U.S. Joint Economic Committee, a panel comprising lawmakers from both congressional chambers that reviews economic conditions to recommend improvements in economic policy, held a hearing Wednesday about job training for the clean-energy transition. Among…
Flexibility was the word of the day at Wednesday’s House hearing on ways to revamp the nation’s main workforce development legislation. The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), last reauthorized in 2014, doesn’t provide the…