While acknowledging COVID-19 challenges, speakers at the 2020 Virtual ATE Principal Investigators’ Conference this week complimented the resiliency of the 1,050 people attending the meeting. They urged them to move through difficulties to strengthen their…
Grants from the National Science Foundation’s Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program not only help faculty test their ideas for innovative STEM technician programs, but they are also a funding source that helps community colleges become…
Two years after its launch, Subaru University at Columbia-Greene Community College (C-GCC) has begun delivering skilled employees into the local workforce. Parmvir Grewal, who plans to graduate from the New York college’s automotive technology program…
Community colleges throughout the country are creating contact tracing courses to meet the urgent demand for trained people able to track COVID-19 infections and thus slow the spread of the disease. States and localities in…
While most community colleges have seen a dip in fall enrollments, a sliver of them have actually seen their numbers increase – and it wasn’t by happenstance. To date, public two-year colleges nationally have seen…
Lane Community College flight instructor Solomon Singer has been using his drone to provide support and surveillance for the Holiday Farm fire east of Eugene-Springfield, Oregon. The fire erupted on Labor Day and caused hundreds…
5M college students are caretakersOnward with National Manufacturing Day2021-22 FAFSA forms availableA president’s perspective on the future of higher ed 5M college students are caretakers About 5 million postsecondary students are providing care to a…
Sponsored content Even though educators encourage professional certification for students to get jobs, it can be a hurdle for them. Students wonder how to accomplish it, whether it’s affordable, and which agency to choose as…
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Colorado community colleges experienced a big increase in dual-enrollment programs in 2018-19 from the previous year. According to a report by the Colorado Department of Education and the Colorado Department of Higher Education, there was…