Headlines
Democrats set to cut free community college, climate program from Biden’s economic plan as they trim price tagCNBCDemocrats will likely scrap free community college from their sprawling economic plan as they move to cut costs…
Funding
Washington Watch: Senate Democrats release FY 22 funding bills
Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) has released the nine fiscal year (FY) 22 appropriations bills that the committee has not yet considered. The bills do not have bipartisan support and serve mainly as…
Reporter’s notebook
House bill aims to help older workersThreading new skills Partnership offers computer science degrees to Egyptian students House bill aims to help older workers House Democrats this week introduced legislation to help older workers upgrade…
Funding roundup
Everett Community College (EvCC) will use a $25,000 donation from Washington health plan Coordinated Care to train the next generation of healthcare students.Ten $2,000 scholarships will help students in nursing, medical assisting, phlebotomy, pre-medicine or…
Amplifying ATE
In March 2020, the trailer that Eric Wooldridge expected would be the headliner of his MOBILE AMP Advanced Technological Education (ATE) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) had been delivered to Somerset Community College…
Community colleges step into teacher ed breach
The demand for teachers in the United States exceeded the supply by more than 100,000 in 2019 for the first time ever, according to the Washington-based Learning Policy Institute, and that was before the challenges…
Defining our future
I recently read something that inspired me to carefully reflect on community colleges. In a passage about the history of the sector, it noted that “great challenges faced the United States … including global economic…
Providing a second chance
Many people in this country look at their circumstances and can’t imagine that there’s a different and better life for them. Approximately 10.6 million people go to jail each year in the United States with…
A game-changer for a generation
A group of kindergartners in Virginia recently brought home good news to their parents: their college tuition, textbooks and fees would be paid for when they graduated from high school. In fact, all current K-12…
Funding roundup
With new federal funding, community colleges can work to increase the number of Hispanic and low-income students getting degrees in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields. Several colleges have received Hispanic-Serving Institutions STEM and…