Maine community colleges offer construction training to fill workforce gaps Mainebiz A collaboration with over 50 leaders from Maine’s construction, education and workforce sectors — along with the Maine Community College System — is expanding…
Ocean County College (OCC) in New Jersey has received $2,500 from OceanFirst Foundation to support food-insecure students through OCC’s Helping Hands Food Pantry and expand volunteer engagement across campus. The funding allowed volunteers to buy…
In a week when a government shutdown dominates headlines and political polarization seems irreparable, one invaluable sector has quiet bipartisan support in our nation: community colleges. More than 1,000 of these colleges educate 10.5 million…
Bill would open agriculture grants to community colleges In Chicago, expanded help for food-insecure students Michigan Association, online provider partner on teacher prep GenAI impacts some jobs more than others Bill would open agriculture grants…
Work-based learning traces its origins to the millennia-old apprenticeship model, which was significantly shaped by the rise of industrialization in the 20th century. While vocational education has gone through many progressions, modern educators are embracing…
In April, President Donald Trump signed an executive order for a plan to “reach and surpass one million new active apprentices” annually. The initiative calls for a rapid expansion of training programs and introduction of…
New CEO Eric Brown is the next president of Denmark Technical College in South Carolina. He previously was a higher education consultant and prior to that an associate vice president for student affairs with the…
Nearly 100 community college presidents, government relations directors and other campus administrators convened last week in Washington, D.C., at the American Association of Community Colleges’ (AACC) annual Advocates in Action, an intimate, off-the-record seminar with…
Once your career winds down, planning for and then carefully choosing a path among diverging roads makes all the difference, according to a group of six long-time community college presidents who have retired in the…
Tri-C to chop 30 associate degree programs, the latest to cite new state law Cleveland.com Cuyahoga Community College announced it will cut 30 associate degree programs, including 15 apprenticeships. The school becomes the latest Ohio…