A partnership between Pima Community College (Pima) in Tucson, Arizona, and the U.S. Air Force to expand a high-quality paramedic program and prepare airmen and women for careers in the military and in civilian life…
Union and business leaders detailed at a House hearing Thursday their struggles to find skilled workers for trade careers, noting that partnering with K-12 schools could help to at least make students and families aware…
About 45.7% of students in the registered nursing program at Bossier Parrish Community College in Louisiana are White and 38.8% are African-American, according to a diversity dashboard the state two-year college system recently developed. Register…
The U.S. education secretary would like to see more innovative collaborations between K-12 and community colleges to serve students, including adult learners. For example, high schools with labs and other hands-on learning spaces could allow…
Cardona at House appropriations hearingNew student aid chief at EDBroadband discount for low-income familiesNew ED clearinghouse for re-opening campuses Cardona at House appropriations hearing U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona pitches the Biden administration’s fiscal year…
President Joe Biden and First Lady Dr. Jill Biden visited a Virginia community college on Monday to promote two years of free community college and other parts of his $1.8 trillion American Families Plan. Meanwhile,…
In New York, community colleges seeking to bolster student success and center educational equity need not go it alone. Thanks to grants from Jobs for the Future (JFF) and its partners, institutions can work with…
Four years ago, the Trump administration touted soon-to-arrive $1 trillion bipartisan legislation that would add to and improve upon the nation’s roads, bridges, ports and other infrastructure. The legislation never materialized. But the need to…
As community colleges work to prepare their students to transition to four-year programs and employment, they are finding new ways to allow them to earn credit for training that typically doesn’t count toward traditional degrees….
House Education and Labor Committee leaders this week discussed reauthorizing the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA). Committee Chair Bobby Scott (D-Virginia) and Ranking Member Virginia Foxx (R-North Carolina) said in a statement that they…