The 2025 Community College Innovation Challenge (CCIC) is open for submissions. The deadline is April 3. The annual national competition, run by the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) in partnership with the National Science…
The American Association of Community Colleges’ (AACC) annual Awards of Excellence underscore the association’s priorities and bring national visibility to promising practices among its member colleges. Winners will be announced at the Awards of Excellence…
College foundation launches wildfire emergency fund Winners of ED’s Postsecondary Success Recognition Program Tennessee’s Navigate Reconnect helps older students College foundation launches wildfire emergency fund The Foundation for the Los Angeles Community Colleges announced on…
Efforts to reauthorize the nation’s main workforce development law fizzled in December, but leaders on the House Education and Workforce Committee seemed poised to try to get it done early in the new Congress. The…
When the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority was looking to build a pipeline of experienced bus drivers for the city, the organization turned to the Corporate College at Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C) to develop a…
Using an artificial intelligence chat program, I asked my computer what was new in workforce development. A response was generated quickly and it seemed to validate the myriad ways in which community colleges provide workforce…
The U.S. Education Department (ED) disbursed $31.47 billion in Pell grants to 6.53 million students in the 2023-24 academic year, based on preliminary year-end data. This represents a significant increase from the prior year, when…
New CEOs Peggy Heinrich is now the ninth president of Elgin Community College (ECC) and also the first woman CEO in the Illinois college’s 75-year history. She most recently served as ECC’s interim president since…
It doesn’t look like a revised House continuing resolution (CR) will include a Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) reauthorization bill, which has language to codify the Strengthening Community Colleges Training Grants (SCCTG) Program. House…
Though it’s been years since the heart of the pandemic, getting students to once again consider a college education is still difficult. Many eschew in-person learning altogether or ultimately decide college is no longer an…