AdminLeadershipClark State Professor Recognized by National Association for Making a DifferenceA Clark State Community College professor has been selected for a prestigious distinction. Bridget Ingram, professor of Early Childhood Education, was awarded the 2020 Dale P. Parnell Faculty Distinction Recognition by the American Association of Community Colleges, according to a release from the college. Read MoreFebruary 4, 2020Other NewsFlorida Community College Earns World Economic Forum Honor With Innovative Education ProgramTallahassee Community College has earned international recognition for its Digital Rail outreach program, a fully-equipped mobile unit that brings technology training to Tallahassee’s impoverished school neighborhoods. TCC was one of only two institutions from the United States making the 16-member list published during the World Economic Forum (WEF) held Jan. 21-24 in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland. Read […]February 4, 2020Other NewsThrough Grant, OTC Offers Proactive Advising to Rural High School StudentsSydney Black’s parents work hard, physically demanding jobs and urged her to sidestep that by going to college. Despite the encouragement, the 18-year-old wasn’t sure how to make the leap from high school. She wants to be the first in her family to graduate college. Read MoreFebruary 4, 2020Other NewsDallas’ 7 Community Colleges Plan to Become 1The Dallas County Community College District will seek approval from its accreditor later this year to merge its seven schools into one in an effort to help more students graduate. Joe May, the district chancellor, said he was motivated to pursue the change after realizing that thousands of students were being denied their degrees despite having […]January 31, 2020Other NewsNew Jersey to Funnel High School Students to Community Colleges, Not Research InstitutionsIn his third year in office, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy hopes to create impactful change statewide. Murphy, a Democrat, proposed a number of policies in his most recent State of the State address, in which he called for “Ethics-reform” in New Jersey. The legislation he wishes to see passed this year includes a millionaire’s […]January 31, 2020Other NewsAccreditors Place Troubled Peralta Community College District on ProbationAccreditation officials will announce Friday that they have placed the Peralta Community College District’s four East Bay colleges on “probation,” a severe sanction meaning the schools are out of compliance with a number of required standards and must repair the problems or be further penalized. The new status is the latest in a series of […]January 31, 2020Other NewsCommunity College Students to Showcase STEM Innovation Skills in National CompetitionCommunity college students have the opportunity to present their science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) projects and ideas through a national innovation competition starting in March. The contest, called the Community College Innovation Challenge (CCIC), is an initiative of the National Science Foundation (NSF), in partnership with the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC). It […]January 31, 2020Other NewsCommunity College Collaboration Helps Low-Income StudentsNC State officially launched the Community College Collaboration (C3) program, designed to help students enrolled in community colleges join NC State, in fall of 2018. The program recently received a $1,064,000 commitment over three years from the GlaxoSmithKline foundation. NC State decided to partner with the foundation because of its interest in helping people from […]January 28, 2020Other NewsMinorities Making Up Bigger Ratio of Iowa Community College EnrollmentMirroring demographic shifts in the state, minority enrollment across Iowa’s 15 community colleges swelled to a record 23 percent in the last academic year. Although that’s well below the national community college minority student enrollment average of 39 percent, Iowa continued to best the rest of the country in the ratio of the state minority population […]January 28, 2020Other NewsProgram to Advance Latinx Leaders in Community Colleges Finds a Home at SDSUSan Diego State University is the new home for a program addressing a national shortage of Latinx leaders in community college leadership. The National Community College Hispanic Council (NCCHC) Leadership Fellows Program, hosted in the College of Education, seeks to close a community college diversity gap. Data shows that while about half of Latinx college students nationwide […]January 28, 2020Previous PagePage 57 of 286Next Page
