The Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation, led by philanthropist and New York Mets owner Alexandra Cohen, is awarding a $116.2 million grant to New York’s LaGuardia Community College to create a new massive workforce training…
A section of the sprawling Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, a/k/a the Crime Bill, overturned a section of the Higher Education Act of 1965 that allowed prisoners to receive Pell Grants….
A longstanding collaboration is back as Jackson College nursing students come to the Jackson Interfaith Shelter to provide health services. Nursing Instructor Laura Thomas was once a student at the Michigan college who took trips…
What do community colleges need to know before developing artificial intelligence programs? Leaders from Maricopa Community College, Houston Community College and Miami Dade College — the first three nationwide to develop AI associate and bachelor’s…
Photos submitted by member colleges of the American Association of Community Colleges and related programs. Acting U.S. Secretary of Labor Julie Su (center) and Rep. Suzanne Bonamici (center left) participate in a semiconductor workforce discussion…
Editor’s note: This article kicks off a series that will examine some of the topics and sessions that will be featured at the American Association of Community Colleges’ annual convention, which will be held April…
Editor’s note: This Q&A comes from an edited transcript of an interview with Melanie Booth, executive director of HLC Credential Lab. Melanie Booth Melanie Booth, executive director of the Higher Learning Commission’s (HLC) new Credential…
Our nation finds itself facing a modern-day Sputnik moment. Americans were shocked in 1957 with the news the Soviet Union had launched the first artificial satellite into the Earth’s orbit. It was a disheartening defeat…
The chair and ranking member of the House Education and the Workforce Committee on Wednesday encouraged business leaders to let their congressional representatives know that they support a bipartisan House bill that would extend Pell…
An ambitious statewide youth apprenticeship program modeled on the renowned Swiss system of apprenticeships starting in high school is being developed in Indiana, with Ivy Tech Community College (Ivy Tech), the statewide community college system,…