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Community colleges increase training for police officers in the wake of protestsEdNCAfter a week of protests around the state and concern about the police response, the North Carolina Board of Community Colleges approved funds for…
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President on the move Falecia D. Williams will be the ninth president of Prince George’s Community College in Maryland, effective in August. She comes from Valencia College in Orlando, Florida, where she was president of…
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Community college chief wants police training changesCalMattersCalifornia’s extensive community college system is responsible for helping train a huge number of the state’s police officers. Eloy Ortiz Oakley, the system’s chancellor, wants to change the curriculum…
Meeting challenges head on
It’s been a challenging few months for Wallace State Community College in Alabama. On the first day of the semester on January 3, the college was hit with a ransomware attack. “We started the semester…
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First-time community college students offered guaranteed acceptance at many Colorado universitiesColorado Public RadioColorado’s new Bridge to Bachelor’s Degree Program allows students at the state’s 13 community colleges to be conditionally admitted to a participating four-year…
Time to expand intensive career training programs
As of May 28, 36.5 million Americans filed for unemployment insurance, a number far worse than the 2.7 million claims most economists were expecting and predicting. The U.S. Department of Labor reported a loss of…
DataPoints: Community colleges and student aid
In the 2017-18 academic year, community colleges received 33 percent of all distributed Pell Grant funds even though they enrolled nearly 41 percent of all undergraduates. As shown below, students at community colleges received a…
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New CEOs Chad Hickox is now the permanent president of Walla Walla Community College (WWCC) in Washington, where he has served in an acting role since March. Hickox came to WWCC in 2018 as vice…
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Commentary: All In this together? Don’t forget the community college studentsThe HillIf plans for reopening in colleges in the fall do not take these students’ unique challenges into account, they may fail to return to…
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Commentary: Community colleges can play an even greater role in training contact tracersNJ.comTesting, along with contact tracing, follow-up and resource support, are essential components in the fight against COVID-19, and specifically for bending the curve…