Funding roundup
A Butler County Community College (BC3) scholarship fund got a boost. A motorcycle group from an American Legion post in Butler County has contributed $10,000 to the Butler American Legion Riders Veterans Incentive Scholarship Post…
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Washington Watch: What’s next for the American Jobs and Families Plans?
Immediately prior to leaving for its annual August recess, the Senate passed bipartisan infrastructure legislation and an FY 2022 budget resolution that sets the stage for a much larger bill to enact parts of President…
Lumina focuses on adult community college students
Lumina Foundation on Thursday announced that it will provide more than $5 million in competitive grants for work in three key areas, including efforts to increase adult community college enrollments, advance racial justice and equity,…
Tour de Pennsylvania
In late June, John “Ski” Sygielski, president and CEO of HACC, Central Pennsylvania’s Community College, got on his Jamis Renegade bicycle and set off on his annual journey to show gratitude and raise awareness and…
Funding roundup
In North Carolina, Mitchell Community College students relying on scholarships to afford their education got a major boost. Frank and Carol Childress have committed $1 million for financial aid to the college. Their gift, which…
Reporter’s notebook
Incentives to get vaccinatedCongress urged to give legal protection for DACA recipientsIllinois college to cover tuition for recent dual-enrollment studentsCommunity college students among new HBCU Scholars Incentives to get vaccinated Community colleges and other higher…
Funding roundup
College of the Mainland (COM) will use a $20,000 donation from COM board trustee Alan Waters and Yolanda Nino-Waters to establish the Latinas Adelante Scholarship. The gift will expand opportunities for Latina women to achieve…
Partisan about Pell
A House hearing Thursday focusing on Pell grants yielded mostly well-known arguments from both sides of the aisle: Democrats contended that an increase to the maximum award — in particular, doubling it — is long…
Washington Watch: ED releases additional higher ed relief funds
The U.S. Education Department (ED) on Thursday released $3.2 billion in remaining Higher Education Emergency Relief Funds (HEERF) to support students at historic and under-resourced institutions. The new funding comes overwhelmingly through Titles III and…
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Montgomery County Community College (MCCC) in Pennsylvania recently received one of the largest estate gifts in its history: $576,000 from Alma R. Jacobs’ estate to benefit the greatest needs of MCCC and its students. Jacobs…