In Illinois, students and instructors involved in Highland Community College’s agriculture program were on hand to receive $5,000 from Vita Plus Corporation. The donation will support the dairy judging program and the purchase of feed…
The federal government recently released a new set of student outcome measures that are an improvement over traditional graduation rate metrics but still fall short of the data needed to better understand community college student…
The House Committee on Education and the Workforce on Friday released a 542-page bill to reauthorize the Higher Education Act that would significantly change federal student aid, such as allowing students to tap Pell grants…
Editor’s note: MentorLinks mentees began planning their two-year projects with mentors at a two-day meeting in Washington, D.C., in October. The American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) convened the meeting and awarded grants to the…
MentorLinks mentors Danis Heighton and Cathryn Balas have more insights to share with their mentees than what they learned during the successful execution of multiple National Science Foundation (NSF) Advanced Technological Education (ATE) grants. Madeline…
Editor’s note: Cheryl Costantini, vice president of content strategy at Cengage, discusses how Cengage is using open content to create learning solutions that impact success for both learners and institutions as a whole. Costantini and…
Kevin Patino, a second-year student at Richland College in Dallas County Community College District in Texas, walked by the advanced manufacturing lab on campus one day and immediately “fell in love” with the state-of-the-art, gleaming…
The skills needed for accounting and 3D printing originate in opposite sides of the brain. Erik Cassanois an editorial specialist at Cuyahoga Community College in Ohio.More Posts
First the good news: Connecticut offers proof that it is possible to improve attitudes about manufacturing careers and increase enrollments in advanced technology programs. Madeline PattonMadeline Patton is an education writer based in Ohio.More Posts
CyberWatch West’s “crosswalk” tool for military occupation specialties (MOS) helps two-year colleges more systematically match veterans’ military job experiences with IT and cybersecurity courses. Madeline PattonMadeline Patton is an education writer based in Ohio.More Posts