Funding roundup
North Carolina’s Pitt Community College (PCC) and Pitt County Schools (PCS) received a $200,000 grant from the Golden LEAF Foundation. The funding supports the PCC-PCS Technical Academy and will help to hire a project director….
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ASAP in Ohio yields successful results
Three Ohio community colleges that tested the Accelerated Student in Associate Programs (ASAP) – a well-regarded City University of New York (CUNY) program that requires students to attend college full-time and provides robust wraparound students…
What’s the key to the nation’s future economic success? Apprenticeships
AMELIA ISLAND, Fla. — A steady stream of employers comes to the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) to talk about how difficult it is to find a skilled workforce, according to John Ladd, head of…
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Humanities projects at eight community colleges were among the 188 projects that received National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grants this week. In total, NEH awarded $30.9 million to support digital projects for the public,…
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California’s San Diego Community College District (SDCCD), along with the University of California San Diego, received a combined $2.7 million from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to build a pipeline of successful undergraduate and graduate…
Funding roundup
Tens of thousands of community college students in Washington state will benefit from the generosity of Eva Gordon, a Seattle resident who passed away in 2018 at the age of 105. In mid-December, her estate…
Washington Watch: Spotlight on Title III and V programs
Funding for federal Title III and Title V programs — geared toward colleges that serve a disproportionate number of minorities, low-income and first-generation students — is on solid footing. Laurie Quarlesis a legislative resource associate…
TAACCCT as a model for future workforce efforts
The federally funded Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) program may have expired last year, but it can serve as a model to help both workers and employers who are trying to…
Washington Watch: Approps bills largely good news for community colleges
Congressional appropriators on Monday released all 12 compromise appropriations bills (packaged into two larger bills) that will fund the federal government through the remainder of fiscal year (FY) 2020. Jim HermesJim Hermes is associate vice…
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In Pennsylvania, Butler County Community College’s (BC3) plans for a new nursing and allied health building got a boost with a $500,000 gift from Grove City College. The high-tech, $9 million Victor K. Phillips Nursing…