Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC) in New York City will use a $100,000 grant from Trinity Church Wall Street to expand BMCC Project Impact, a program designed to support justice-involved students with educational programs…
The stakes are high for community colleges as the U.S. Senate starts work in earnest this week on coronavirus stimulus “4.0” legislation. The final version of this bill will greatly affect the resources available to…
At Linn-Benton Community College (LBCC) in Oregon, insurance premium rates were flat, or even declining, for five or six years. But that’s no longer the case. For the fiscal year that started on July…
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) will award a total of $40 million to community college-led partnerships to expand their training capacity through a new program. Individual community colleges may apply for Strengthening Community College…
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) this week awarded $80.6 million in grants to help states improve and expand registered apprenticeship programs (RAPs). Building State Capacity to Expand Apprenticeship through Innovation grants would strengthen the…
Led by Sen. Patty Murray (D-Washington), ranking member on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and Labor-HHS-ED appropriations subcommittee, 16 Democrats, including Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-New York), have advanced a $430 billion bill…
More than half of the $62.3 billion in community college revenues in 2017-18 came from state and local dollars, with states providing one-third. As states expect to see a significant drop in their tax revenues…
New Jersey recovered economically, and – to some extent, emotionally – from 9/11, the Great Recession of 2009, and SuperStorm Sandy thanks in large part to the state’s community colleges. In the aftermath of those…
Missouri’s Ozarks Technical Community College (OTC) has received a $500,000 donation from Emerson, a global technology and engineering company based in St. Louis. The gift is the first of what the OTC Foundation hopes will…
A new report calls on community colleges to focus more on workforce development to help displaced workers and others secure available jobs, especially as Americans have lost their jobs due to the pandemic. “The Indispensable…