President Joe Biden’s long-anticipated announcement Wednesday to cancel $10,000 in student debt — and $20,000 in selected circumstances — may not be generally associated with community colleges, but the action will have a dramatic impact…
Leading House Republicans this month introduced a bill that would make major changes to federal student loan programs and expand Pell Grant eligibility to certain short-term programs. House Republicans have positioned the Responsible Education Assistance…
The U.S. Education Department (ED) has announced a new $8 million grant competition geared to help minority-serving institutions in their efforts to diversify the teacher workforce and prepare teachers to meet underserved students’ needs. The…
Workforce needs for the Bipartisan Infrastructure LawWinner of Lumina Foundation’s $1M branding prize Showcasing programs that foster Latino student success Workforce needs for the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law The White House will hold a virtual briefing…
The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) has awarded a total of $3.1 million to 12 community colleges and a handful of training institutes to train more commercial drivers for trucking careers, with a focus on…
Helping foreign-born nurses return to their professionTexas college overhauls nursing programPopular union train-the-trainer program returnsProviding incarcerated youth with job training opportunitiesHigh school joins Minnesota college’s campus Helping foreign-born nurses return to their profession A partnership…
A program that helps community college faculty improve their STEM project pitches to obtain National Science Foundation (NSF) grants focused on technician education is widening eligibility to more faculty. https://www.mentor-connect.org/ All two-year college STEM faculty…
Shopping malls may have lost much of their luster for hanging out, but the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, is not your average mall. Each day, about 170,000 people visit the facility, which includes…
Anecdotal reports from some community colleges across the country show hopeful signs that perhaps draconian drops in enrollment during the Covid pandemic may be coming to an end. Community colleges have amped up efforts to…
The U.S. Education Department on Thursday (ED) brought together approximately 80 educators, including a clutch of community college leaders, in a day-long event to discuss strategies to highlight and enhance efforts focused on college completion. …