In mid-June, well before most colleges and universities, Northern Essex Community College (NECC) in Massachusetts announced that the fall semester would be offered 90 percent online. By making a decision early, the college had time…
With nine sites serving 60,000 students, Collin College in Texas transitioned 3,100 classes online on March 20, launching the new programming a week later. The campus closure exacerbated a “digital divide” where some learners were…
Two major employers piloting a portable academic, work and skills transcript plan to share their results next month with a workforce advisory board created by the White House. During an informational webinar Tuesday on the…
Principal investigators of Advanced Technological Education (ATE) grants “leveraged” their COVID-19 experiences and ATE assets to transform the virtual High Impact Technology Exchange Conference (HI-TEC) into a giant help session for sharing strategies to deliver…
Employers participating in the virtual High Impact Technology Exchange Conference (HI-TEC) agreed that COVID-19 has sharpened their need for technicians — whether they are among the small group of employees working on-site during the pandemic…
Some community colleges are seeing a big surge in dual enrollments that is likely due to the coronavirus pandemic. Several college leaders cite several factors that are leading more high school students to seek college…
Driven by a passion for science and technology, College of DuPage (COD) engineering student Cierra Desmaratti is shattering the glass ceiling and pushing the envelope in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). In her third…
This spring, the National Coalition of Advanced Technology Centers (NCATC) pivoted – like the majority of organizations across the world – to seriously and thoughtfully follow the national coronavirus pandemic experts from the Centers for…
When Simone Yalanty was laid off from a job as a machine operator due to COVID-19, it seemed to come from out of nowhere. “It was pretty surprising,” Yalanty says. “We hadn’t been told anything…
With Hispanic student enrollment growing at community colleges, leaders of the HSI ATE Hub — a collaborative that guides STEM faculty at Hispanic-serving institutions (HSI) toward securing Advanced Technological Education (ATE) grants — urge a…