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A decade ago, Erin Costa Noonan found her passion for nursing as a student at Bristol Community College. After graduating and serving as a registered nurse for many years, she decided to take the next…
A decade ago, Erin Costa Noonan found her passion for nursing as a student at Bristol Community College. After graduating and serving as a registered nurse for many years, she decided to take the next…
When many people in the greater United States think of California, they frequently focus on a long scenic coastline with San Francisco at the top and Los Angeles at the bottom. While this image isn’t…
When I began my career in 1978 as an adjunct faculty member and counselor at Cedar Valley College in southern Dallas County, Texas, higher education was profoundly different than it is today, but it was…
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) will host a series of public listening sessions for employers throughout May and early June to seek feedback on potential changes to the salary level threshold for “white-collar” exemptions…
It is no secret that community colleges suffered during the pandemic. Significant drops in enrollment occurred across the country during the past two years. But rather than focus on numbers, we must look at the…
The House Committee on Education and Labor on Tuesday approved the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2022 (WIOA), which would reauthorize the statute that governs the federal workforce development and adult basic education programs….
The Biden administration released a fiscal year (FY) 2023 budget on Monday that, while ambitious in some areas, is more measured than last year’s blueprint. The same can be said for the budget’s education and…
The U.S. Education Department (ED) last Friday wrapped up its negotiated rulemaking for the Committee on Institutional and Programmatic Eligibility for Title IV student aid programs. Consensus was reached on only two of the seven…
It has been called many things: live online, web live, online synced or virtual live. This modality pairs live synchronous sessions with traditional aspects of distance learning, such as online lesson materials and activities. This…
Members of a U.S. Education Department’s (ED) negotiated-rulemaking committee failed on Wednesday to reach consensus on proposed regulations implementing the “gainful employment” (GE) language in the Higher Education Act. The consensus vote was held during…