The U.S. Education Department (ED) has issued yet further guidance addressing the formula grants under the CARES Act. However, this guidance is mostly good news for community colleges, particularly in how they may spend funds…
A federal judge on Wednesday issued a preliminary injunction that prevents the U.S. Education Department (ED) from imposing any student eligibility requirements in distributing CARES Act emergency grants to California community college students. U.S. District…
A federal judge has temporarily blocked the U.S. Education Department from implementing certain eligibility restrictions on CARES Act emergency student grants in Washington state. U.S. District Court Judge Thomas O. Rice on Friday granted state…
The U.S. Education Department (ED) will likely soon publish an “interim final rule” (IFR) on CARES Act student emergency grant eligibility and related issues. (ED had announced that it would publish the rule on June…
In Texas, Victoria College’s Museum of the Coastal Bend has hired two collections interns for the summer thanks to a nearly $50,000 grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services’ Inspire! Grants for…
The Covid-19 pandemic, upsurge in unemployment and social unrest are leading to soul-searching among community college leaders on how they can best serve their students and communities. Four presidents discussed how their institutions are adapting…
The U.S. Department of Labor awarded nearly $24 million to 20 colleges as part of the Job Corps Scholars Program, a new national demonstration project aimed at providing at-risk youth with job skills instruction, educational…
Megan Coval Congress and the president quickly approved the CARES Act in March to provide $14 billion in emergency funding to colleges and students to help them with challenges resulting from the coronavirus pandemic. The…
Community colleges weren’t represented at a Senate hearing Thursday on how colleges and universities plan to safely reopen campuses, but many concerns of the two-year college sector were addressed during the virtual meeting. The Senate…
For many years, the high cost of textbooks has negatively affected college students. For example, in a recent survey of students at HACC, Central Pennsylvania’s Community College, roughly 20 percent of students said they regularly…