AdminAcademicsMomentum Builds for P-Tech Early College ProgramsShanaes Akhtar first heard about Pathways in Technology Early College High (P-TECH) as a middle schooler. She read an article about the Brooklyn high school and learned that students there spend six years instead of the traditional four but they graduate with an associate degree along with their high school diploma – all for free. […]September 4, 2018Workforce DevelopmentFacebook Launches Partnership on Digital MarketingFacebook announced on Aug. 27 that it is working with Canada College in Redwood City and Foothill College in Los Altos to develop a digital marketing certificate that will be offered through those community colleges. The courses are expected to be available to students for enrollment in early 2019, and will teach students how to […]September 4, 2018Blogs/OpinionNo Diploma MillsIn June, the California legislature finalized a plan that will encourage community colleges to confer degrees to students and allow them to transfer to four-year colleges by withholding funding from low-performing community colleges. This is a flawed plan for three major reasons. First, encouraging community colleges to graduate students who are not ready for four […]August 30, 2018LeadershipDistrict Offers Free Tuition for First-Time, Full-Time StudentsThere’s not just the Richmond Promise. Now, local students have access to the California College Promise. First-time, full-time students can receive free tuition for up to one year at Contra Costa College, Diablo Valley College and Los Medanos College effective Monday, Aug. 27, the first day of the new school year, the Contra Costa Community […]August 30, 2018Workforce DevelopmentThousands More Tennesseans Than Expected Apply for Free TuitionNASHVILLE, Tenn. — Officials say a new program allowing adults to attend community college or technical schools tuition-free in Tennessee has received thousands more applications than anticipated. The Tennessean reported Monday that Tennessee Reconnect is in its first year and roughly 31,000 adults have applied. State Higher Education Commission Executive Director Mike Krause says the […]August 30, 2018Workforce DevelopmentColleges Ramp Up Cloud Computing EducationA group of community colleges in Southern California is working with Amazon Web Services and its education program to develop college credit courses for a cloud computing career pathway that starts in high school, continues through college and leads to industry certifications. The goal of the “CA Cloud Workforce Consortia” is to expand this common […]August 30, 2018Workforce DevelopmentPrisoners on Track to Receive Associate’s DegreesFifty seven incarcerated students at Pamlico Correctional Institution were recognized on Thursday for their commitment to the first year of an associate’s degree program that could eventually expand throughout the state’s prisons. “I think that this is a prototype that can be copied and that it will work anywhere where you have the same amount […]August 30, 2018Blogs/OpinionScaling BackGov. Phil Murphy had a big plan for free community college for all in New Jersey. It arrived this month, looking much diminished. Instead of free college at a two-year school for anyone who wants it, income-qualifying students will get the balance paid on what they owe after their state and federal aid is applied […]August 29, 2018Workforce DevelopmentVeto in N.J. Halves $1B Bonds for Vo-Tech, Community CollegesGov. Phil Murphy has blocked the Legislature’s push to issue $1 billion in bonds for school upgrades statewide, instead opting to halve the amount to $500 million that the state could borrow. Murphy’s conditional veto of Senate Bill 2293, formally called the “Security Our Children’s Future Bond Act,” bounces the bill back to the state […]August 29, 2018Workforce DevelopmentRating Best and Worst Colleges for CertificatesEarlier this year, Donald Trump said this to a group of Republican lawmakers: “Today you have community colleges and you have all of the—when I was growing up we had vocational schools . . . You learn mechanical, you learn bricklaying and carpentry and all of these things. We don’t have that very much anymore. […]August 29, 2018Previous PagePage 125 of 286Next Page
