Tackling workforce gender issues
Growing up in Iowa, Lauren Wieser had a hobbyist’s interest in all things mechanical, whether dismantling her bicycle for fun or tinkering underneath the hood of the family truck. “It was mostly about how the…
Funding
Funding roundup
In Connecticut, Asnuntuck Community College’s (ACC’s) Women’s Leadership Institute received a $4,000 donation from the Carol Rivest Memorial Foundation. The institute, which was established to help women develop their leadership skills and ability, will use…
Investing in wildfire resiliency
Several wildfires are raging in California right now. The Santa Rosa Junior College (SRJC) community is too familiar with the destruction and devastation wildfires cause. Its members have been in the path of several and…
Going straight to good use
In the cold of a Nebraska winter, amidst the misery of the Covid pandemic, recruiters from Northeast Community College in Norfolk began reaching out to high schools with a message of hope for students. In…
Broadening the Mentor-Connect opportunity
Mentor-Connect is opening its mentoring services to two-year college STEM faculty members who have not previously received a grant from the National Science Foundation’s Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program. In the past, the Mentor-Connect mentoring…
Funding roundup
With a $5 million donation to Missouri’s East Central College (ECC), “lives will be changed and lives will be saved,” said President Jon Bauer. The historic gift comes from an anonymous couple who were already…
Finding a way to make it work
It’s almost 8 p.m. by the time Marixochitl Pratz – Mari to her friends and family – gets the chance to sit down and talk about her life and experiences at El Paso Community College…
Rising from the rubble: What we’ve learned one year after Hurricane Laura
On August 27, 2020, just 10 days after the start of SOWELA Technical Community College’s fall semester and amid the second serious Covid wave, Hurricane Laura nearly wiped out the Lake Charles area and caused…
Focused on cybersecurity
The White House this week announced a series of initiatives to strengthen the nation’s cybersecurity, including efforts to develop and train a larger and more diverse cybersecurity workforce. One of the initiatives includes the designation…
Q&A: Supporting parent-students
Editor’s note: This excerpt comes from the new issue of the Community College Journal, the award-winning flagship publication of the American Association of Community Colleges. Nicole Lynn Lewis A spotlight has been put on the…