Our lexicon has changed dramatically in the last few months. Sanitization, personal protective equipment, remote learning and social distancing have become a part of our everyday discussions. For community college presidents, the responsibilities of leadership…
Megan Coval Congress and the president quickly approved the CARES Act in March to provide $14 billion in emergency funding to colleges and students to help them with challenges resulting from the coronavirus pandemic. The…
For many years, the high cost of textbooks has negatively affected college students. For example, in a recent survey of students at HACC, Central Pennsylvania’s Community College, roughly 20 percent of students said they regularly…
As of May 28, 36.5 million Americans filed for unemployment insurance, a number far worse than the 2.7 million claims most economists were expecting and predicting. The U.S. Department of Labor reported a loss of…
COVID-19 has disrupted many of our lives, especially high school seniors who were excited to graduate and begin a new chapter at a university in the fall. Much of the four-year experience is about exploring…
“*” will soon appear on many statistics. For the sports fan looking at stats, the NHL and NBA seasons ended early, making season stats incomparable with prior seasons, not to mention that neither league may…
It is an American higher education original that delivers so much to so many for so little, and yet its full impact is often underappreciated. It is a lack of awareness that could be potentially…
The Education Department (ED) again has added and altered the information it has provided to higher edcuation institutions about implementing CARES Act student emergency grants. The May 21 communication came as a shock and has…
When the Great Recession hit in December 2007 and extended into 2009, key industry sectors imploded and unemployment in the United States more than doubled, to 10 percent. In New York, Borough of Manhattan Community…
Of all of the dire predictions making headlines regarding COVID-19, one that does not appear to make the news is this: community colleges were and are well-positioned to address student needs during and after this…