Community college leaders attending this month’s Community College National Legislative Summit heard from U.S. Agriculture Secretary Thomas Vilsack, who touted the Biden administration’s commitment to reducing food insecurity among college students as well as promoting…
The American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) last week submitted extensive comments to the U.S. Education Department (ED) concerning the department’s proposal to create a list of higher education programs that provide “low financial value.”…
Think about your online course shell like a website for your class. When you go to a website, what are you looking for in terms of navigation or design? Think about the last website you…
When I was younger, Black History Month meant reading the biographies of famous African Americans and writing papers about Civil Rights leaders. Now that I am president and CEO of Phi Theta Kappa (PTK), I…
This is a special year for St. Philip’s College. It is kicking off its 125th anniversary on March 1. St. Philip’s started in 1898 as a church school where a small group of African American girls…
Purple squirrels … blue diamonds … unicorns. No matter what terms we use, we all have those special customers that Psychology Today coins “pseudo-exceptionals.” These pseudo-exceptionals are those who believe they’re completely different from others…
With the pandemic years almost completely behind us, community colleges across the country now have several new challenges to work on. The large drop in student enrollment is the first. This began before the pandemic…
In an action that echoes the Obama administration’s wildly unpopular college ratings system, the U.S. Education Department is formally soliciting public input on the creation of a list of higher education programs that provide “low…
“This Week in Washington” provides weekly updates from the American Association of Community Colleges’ (AACC) Office of Government Relations, detailing the latest movements on key community college advocacy issues and AACC’s activity in Washington, D.C….
A new year means a new start, and many are heading back to campus with a long list of resolutions. While it’s tempting to set lofty goals, experts have found that focusing on small, realistic…