AdminOther NewsHow a Small Tribal College Stepped up to Make Face Shields For Health WorkersBay Mills Community College, a tribal college in Michigan, received a request from its community two weeks ago to make face masks for local workers providing key services during the coronavirus emergency. The school’s advanced manufacturing program got to work, designing a lightweight, reusable face shield. Using 3D printing technology, they plan to produce 3,000 […]April 7, 2020Other NewsCommunity College Faculty: Gut Online College To Pay For Online Training. (You Read That Right.)Community college faculty are calling on the system’s leader to dismantle California’s beleaguered new online community college to pay for the shift to remote learning at traditional campuses. The faculty leaders say the $120 million in state funds used to run Calbright College, the state’s first fully online community college, would be better spent training faculty […]April 3, 2020HealthIn His Own Words: Eloy Oakley on How California’s Community Colleges are Coping With the CoronavirusEloy Ortiz Oakley is chancellor of the California Community Colleges, and in that role is overseeing the upheaval at the nation’s largest system of higher education, with 115 colleges and over 2 million part-time and full-time students. Even as they serve some of California’s most vulnerable students, the colleges have all gone to distance learning […]April 3, 2020Other NewsVirginia Community Colleges Moving to Pass/Fail Grading for Rest of SemesterWEYERS CAVE, Va.—All colleges within the Virginia Community Colleges system, including Blue Ridge Community College, are moving to a pass/fail grading system as they continue to provide classes solely through online means for the rest of the Spring 2020 semester. According to a statement by Virginia’s Community Colleges Chancellor Glenn DuBois, the system is instituting […]April 3, 2020Other NewsCommunity Colleges Get Creative to Survive Spring, While Prepping for a Surge Next FallLatease Jordan’s college, like most colleges, is basically closed. Classrooms have shuttered, offices are locked shut, courses have shifted online. But Jordan is waiting to move into a new home and doesn’t have Internet access. So Tuesday, she drove a half-hour from her friend’s house in Southeast Washington to the University of the District of […]April 3, 2020HealthMaine Community Colleges Offering Free Health Care Training Programs for Laid-Off WorkersThe state is suspending restrictions for some online job training programs in an effort to quickly train out-of-work Mainers for health care positions. On Friday, Gov. Janet Mills signed an executive order suspending certain restrictions of the Maine Quality Centers program, which is offered by the state’s community college system. Read MoreMarch 31, 2020Other NewsMassachusetts Community Colleges Struggle to Get Classes Online(TNS) — Strapped for financial resources and without billion-dollar endowments to tap, community colleges across Massachusetts have been scrambling to adjust thousands of courses to the new, remote reality wrought by COVID-19. While their better-funded, four-year counterparts have largely had web-based classes up and running for at least a week now, many of the state’s […]March 31, 2020Other NewsCommunity College Leaders Worry COVID-19 Crisis Will Push Students To Drop OutThe effort to move community classes online has been a large feat. Some of these campuses educate as many students as the larger four-year campuses and with 115 colleges, the state’s community college network is the largest higher education system in the country. “Our main focus has been helping to support students through this crisis,” […]March 31, 2020FinanceNew York’s Tuition Free Program Leaves Out Many Low-Income, Community College StudentsThe Excelsior Scholarship, New York’s tuition-free program, only reaches a small portion of low-income and community college students within the state, according to a new analysis of the initiative. The Center for an Urban Future’s (CUF) new brief, “New York’s Free Tuition Promise Falling Short,” looked at Excelsior scholarships awarded in 2017-2018, the first two […]March 31, 2020Other NewsGift Supports Catawba Valley Community College’s Transition to OnlineOnline instruction for courses started on Monday at Catawba Valley Community College, but not without its students, faculty and staff being fully prepared to meet that challenge. An anonymous gift received by the CVCC Foundation Inc. of more than $100,000 has helped Catawba Valley Community College to provide its students, faculty and staff with several […]March 29, 2020Previous PagePage 50 of 286Next Page
