Since 2022, the Alabama Community College System (ACCS) has administered its Skills for Success program through which Alabama community colleges across the state train employees in new careers. The training comprises self-paced online instruction followed…
Commentary: Making the most of competency-based hiring Governing It’s not enough for public and private employers to simply drop college degree requirements. State governments have a crucial role in matching workers and employers based on…
Photos submitted by member colleges of the American Association of Community Colleges. Prince George’s Community College student trustee Sade Davis introduced President Joe Biden, who visited the Maryland college on September 14 to deliver a…
Pueblo Corporate College, a division of Colorado’s Pueblo Community College (PCC), is celebrating the completion of its first industrial sewing class. Students displayed some of their work at a September 7 showcase. The class become…
An early childhood education program at Reading Area Community College (RACC) in Pennsylvania looks to improve the skills and successes of Latino workers in those jobs. A community health worker program at Chicago’s Richard J….
The odds were long, but in August 2022 a consortium led by Dallas College emerged as one of only 32 worker-centered, industry-led workforce training partnerships in the nation to receive a multimillion federal grant to…
In 2020, after more than 200 years, the Remington Arms factory in Ilion, New York, shut its doors, and nearly 250 mainly skilled labor employees without college degrees were let go. But fortunately, Mohawk Valley…
Sixty percent of former community college students cite work goals as the main reason they enrolled at a two-year college, but only about half of those individuals say their education helped to fulfill those goals,…
After tapering off somewhat during the Great Recession and even more dramatically during the Covid pandemic, community college enrollments overall appear to be blooming this fall in varying degrees, according to reports from more than…
Other community colleges that responded to CC Daily’s inquiry also mostly have positive numbers to report as of August. Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland was up 4.4% in headcount and 6.3% in full-time equivalent (FTE)…