Leadership

Snapshots: ATE 2024

A few candid photos from the 2024 Advanced Technological Education Principal Investigators’ Conference held in Washington, D.C., October 23-25. The American Association of Community Colleges manages the annual event with support from the National Science…


Emerging opportunities in the airways

Urban air mobility (UAM) is moving into a new phase thanks to technological advances and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issuing a final rule on October 22 about the qualifications and training for pilots and…


Turning inmates into students

4,460. That’s the number of incarcerated individuals who earned a GED through the Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS) from 2020 to 2024. And during the same period, enrollments in the GED prep classes,…


ATE on AI

Before hearing from industry thought leaders about the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the future of work, the people involved in Advanced Technological Education (ATE) projects and centers basked in the praise of one…


A tool to gauge ‘needed math’

Two-year college educators worked through technical workplace scenarios developed by the Needed Math Project at a workshop before the start of the 2024 Advanced Technological Education Principal Investigators’ Conference on Wednesday. The project, funded by…


Newsmakers

Appointments Jewel Jones is joining Guttman Community College (New York) as its chief diversity officer. She previously was associate director of compliance and diversity/deputy chief diversity officer/deputy Title IX coordinator at Hostos Community College (New…


Leveraging AI for equity in teaching and learning

As generative AI becomes an integral part of higher education, community colleges stand at a critical juncture. While AI tools, such as ChatGPT and others, have the potential to transform teaching and learning by offering…


A modernized CTE framework for a changing world

In the last 20 years, technology and the workforce have changed dramatically. That was the impetus for Advance CTE to update the National Career Clusters Framework. First published in 2002, the framework was designed, with…



Higher ed’s responsibility to use OERs

Open educational resources (OER) represent more than just cost-saving tools — they are a significant social innovation. Experts from every field — the humanities, the sciences, business, technology and education — voluntarily contribute their time…