A bipartisan group of 20 senators sent a letter this week to the U.S. Education Department (ED) asking to delay the institutional reporting deadline for gainful employment (GE) and financial value transparency (FVT) to July…
Much of the prior research on improving transfer focuses on structures and constraints at community colleges. Yet, powerful university actors shape the infrastructure (such as information and transfer agreements) and the processes (for example, recruitment,…
Adding to a stream of judicial decisions that directly affect community colleges and their students, U.S. Supreme Court last week declined to lift an injunction against implementing the Biden administration’s Saving on a Valuable Education…
A report on online learning based on responses from chief learning officers released last month found that a large majority of respondents (roughly three-quarters of the 324 leaders surveyed) have seen increasing demand for online…
K-12 teacher shortages across the country continue to worry parents, politicians, policymakers and other stakeholders. Although it is a problem that requires a multi-pronged approach, public community and technical colleges can provide an affordable education…
Many people assume that campaigns are won by registering students to vote, doing text banking and creating effective media. All true! But before a single neighborhood walk is organized, your college needs an effective, easy-to-understand…
The American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) has filed comments to the U.S. Education Department (ED) on behalf of the community college sector pertaining to a July 24 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) on distance…
American politics are divisive. In this election year, the lines are clearly drawn, and compromise is not on the agenda. I have written about the community college leader’s role in finding compromise on campus. Perhaps…
I never thought that a career in education would’ve found me, as I tried to avoid following in my father’s career footsteps, as a college president. However, somehow, it still found me. My father served…
In the landscape of marketing and communications, social media platforms, email marketing and search engine optimization often overshadow traditional methods such as press releases. However, for community colleges, neglecting these traditional avenues in favor of…