Wallace State Community College (Alabama) recently received four grants totaling nearly $400,000 from the Alabama Community College System (ACCS). A $459,000 ACCS grant will fund career technical dual-enrollment scholarships, which will help area high school…
Uplifting underserved populations is a compelling donor narrative, an effort buoyed in recent decades by endowments that fund scholarship opportunities and exciting new programming. “We have a great story to tell about giving,” says Mark…
In Oregon, Portland Community College’s (PCC) foundation received its first-ever $1 million cash charitable donation. The gift is from civic leader and philanthropist Anne Naito-Campbell and will help to establish the Naito Family Fund for…
Adding partners to pilot new U.S. Naval Community CollegeAid to dually enrolled students Adding partners to pilot new U.S. Naval Community College The new U.S. Naval Community College (USNCC) has announced two more community colleges…
Washington Watch is produced by the AACC office of government relations and policy analysis. The American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) has joined with the American Council on Education (ACE) and other higher education groups…
Bank of America on Thursday announced that it will provide $1 million grants to 21 higher education institutions to enhance up-skilling and reskilling for Black and Hispanic-Latino students. More than half of those institutions are…
According to Measure of America, the number of teens and young adults disconnected from both work and school in the United States fell for the eighth year in a row, from a recession-fueled high of…
A bill to reauthorize the nation’s main apprenticeship law, which hasn’t been revamped in 80 years, passed the House Rules Committee on Tuesday. A House floor debate is expected later this week. The committee passed…
Northern Essex Community College (NECC) was the first public two-year college in Massachusetts this summer to adopt Handshake, a career network that comprises 500,000 employers, including all of the Fortune 500 companies. The college recently…
Interest in community colleges offering undergraduate research experiences has increased since the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) a year ago convened a national summit on research experiences for two-year college students. At the recent…