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…
Lawmakers to consider extending community college financial aid for pandemic graduates in short session OregonLive Oregonians who graduated from high school during the pandemic, but did not take advantage of free community college tuition under…
Palm Beach State College (PBSC) has received an $8 million gift that it will use to cover tuition for local middle and high school students who later enroll at the college. The gift, the first…
The House Committee on Education and the Workforce this week approved bipartisan measures to establish workforce Pell Grant eligibility — H.R. 6585, the “Bipartisan Workforce Pell Grant Act” — and to reauthorize the Workforce Innovation…
It was an epic occasion at College of the Mainland (COM) as the family and friends of Mitchell Chuoke, Jr., gathered in November with COM officials to unveil a new plumbing certificate training program in…