AdminOther NewsCalifornia: Graduate More Students or Lose FundingCalifornia’s politicians and educators are getting serious about how to solve an immense and vexing problem — the graduation rate at the community colleges. Until now, nothing has worked — indeed, the graduation rate slipped 1% over the past decade. Shockingly, research shows that 70% of California’s 2.1 million community college students neither earn a […]August 29, 2018Blogs/OpinionAssessing AssessmentsIt’s all about accurately measuring college readiness — and annihilating the achievement gap in the process. For far too long, community colleges have relied on often inaccurate assessment tests that each year cause more than a million students nationwide to begin their postsecondary education in remedial courses they may not need. In California alone, more […]August 24, 2018AcademicsW.Va. Gov Wants Panel to Focus on 4-Year CollegesCHARLESTON, W.Va. — Gov. Jim Justice doesn’t want to make two-year community and technical colleges a high priority for a group reviewing West Virginia’s higher education system. Justice says in a news release Wednesday the Blue Ribbon Commission on Four-Year Higher Education will identify ways to help four-year institutions run more efficiently before expanding its […]August 24, 2018Workforce DevelopmentU.S. Awards $2.5M to 3 Ky. Colleges to Train for ManufacturingHAZARD, Ky. — The federal government has awarded $2.5 million in grants to three Kentucky community colleges that will work together to train a workforce for advanced manufacturing employers. The Commerce Department said in a news release the project is expected to create 261 jobs. The department’s Economic Development Administration awarded the grant, which is […]August 24, 2018Other NewsApprenticeship Program to Address SkillsMcHenry County College will launch a new apprenticeship training program this fall to address the skills gap in manufacturing and other industries, in partnership with area employers and the McHenry County Workforce Network. The program is supported by grants that will be used to train and employ individuals for high-demand, well-paying positions with local industries. […]August 24, 2018Other NewsBen Jealous Pushes Free Tuition Plan to Include DREAMersBen Jealous, the Democratic candidate for governor in Maryland has announced a plan to expand his free tuition community college plan to include DREAMers, or undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children. “This is about every Marylander in every zip code,” Jealous said. “When we first made K-12 education free we unleashed […]August 24, 2018Blogs/OpinionRadical ChangeA revolution will take place in teaching English and math in California community colleges and state universities during the next 12 months – the most radical instructional change I’ve seen in half a century. Driving this change is Assembly Bill 705 and California State University executive order 1110. They will impact change when and how […]August 23, 2018Workforce DevelopmentPort Long Beach, College Team Up to Train WorkersThe Port of Long Beach and Long Beach City College last week launched a one-year pilot program to train new workers in the supply chain and logistics space, with a set of education programs for students looking for opportunities beyond high school but shorter than four-year college degrees. The Port of Long Beach Maritime Center […]August 23, 2018Other NewsCollege in Iowa Revamps Nursing ProgramDAVENPORT, Iowa — Eastern Iowa Community Colleges is revamping its nursing program after a wave of resignations from staffers alleging the college overworked faculty, didn’t invest in new equipment and ignored teachers trying to make improvements. The nursing program is the college’s largest career program with more than 300 students, offered at all three campuses […]August 23, 2018Other NewsCalifornia Colleges Try New Pathway to Student SuccessCalifornia’s community colleges are embarking on the most far-reaching reform they have ever adopted, in a bid to tackle their biggest challenge: to improve on historically low rates of student graduation and transfers to 4-year colleges and universities. Lawmakers allocated $150 million over the last year to put in place the approach, known as “Guided […]August 23, 2018Previous PagePage 126 of 286Next Page
