U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona this week emphasized that one of his priorities is to make sure pre-K-12 is connected to higher education and workforce needs, too. “We need to make sure we are providing…
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,…
Hours after President Joe Biden’s inauguration in January, he told nearly 1,000 new White House staff and political appointees, “We work for the people.” This was a pandemic-era ceremony in which faces appeared in small…
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…
Donald Strange, a 54-year-old public works employee and then manager, has worked on many roads during his 34-year career, but says that there was one particular road that obsessed him. It was a road not…
Glamour recognizes women at community collegesOn Capitol Hill today Glamour recognizes women at community colleges For more than 60 years, Glamour magazine has recognized outstanding college women for their crucial contributions to various fields –…
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…
Kvaal passes Senate ed committeeMassachusetts community colleges: No vaccine mandatesMDC, IBM team to diversify tech fieldToyota to invest $1.7M to help diversify engineering workforce in Kentucky Kvaal passes Senate ed committee James Kvaal is a…