The Lowe’s Foundation this week announced nearly $8 million in grants to 10 community and technical colleges to support workforce development in the skilled trades professions to help fill a national shortage of skilled workers….
What would make a talented 22-year-old raised in rural North Carolina choose to build a career close to home? I would argue our community colleges may be at the center of that decision. When a…
A new national survey finds that two-year colleges receive higher positive ratings than four-year institutions on six of seven attributes measured, from access to workforce preparation. Traditionally, community colleges have done better in public opinion…
Three years after Texas reinvented how community colleges earn state funding to reward them for getting more students to graduation, the schools are delivering. But the colleges are short the millions they planned to receive…
Education officials have had high hopes for this month’s launch of the long-awaited Workforce Pell program. For the first time ever, students attending short-term vocational programs in fields like healthcare support and the skilled trades…
Eighteen community colleges are joining a popular workforce development program funded by the foundation of the rock band Metallica. All Within My Hands (AWMH) recently announced the eighth year of its Metallica Scholars Initiative (MSI)…
For more than a century, community colleges have responded to major economic shifts, continually redefining their role in preparing America’s workforce. They expanded during industrialization, adapted to the rise of advanced manufacturing, embraced the information…
A paycheck matters. But it’s not the only measure of a good career. A federal wage data analysis of non-college occupations argues that those pathways don’t pay off compared to college. The findings are accurate….
Community colleges have long served as engines of economic mobility in the United States. Every year, millions of students turn to these institutions to learn English, earn professional credentials, change careers or acquire new skills…
Apprenticeships were the top-of-mind workforce development topic at Thursday’s Senate confirmation hearing for Acting Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling to be the permanent secretary of the Department of Labor (DOL). Questions over the two-hour hearing of…