AdminFinanceKids Are Increasingly Worried About Paying For CollegeParents, of course, worry about paying for college. Increasingly, their children share that concern. Over the last decade, tuition and fees jumped 44% at four-year, private colleges and by 55% at public four-year schools. As a result, student debt has reached record proportions, with $1.6 trillion in loans outstanding. Read MoreMay 29, 2019FacultyWashtenaw Community College Proposes Outsourcing IT to Third PartyANN ARBOR, MI – Two years after a three-day outage impacted Washtenaw Community College, the college is proposing to outsource its technology management services. Outsourcing to Ellucian could save the college around $600,000 per year, WCC President Rose Bellanca said. But strains on staff during incidents like the 2017 outage were what prompted WCC to look into […]May 29, 2019Workforce DevelopmentSpokane Community College Building $5 Million Transit CenterA bigger, relocated transit center is coming to the campus of Spokane Community College, according to permits issued by the city. The $5 million project will construct the eastern terminus for Spokane Transit Authority’s Central City Line, a bus rapid transit route that recently received $53.4 million from the federal government and will begin operating […]May 21, 2019LeadershipNew BMCC President Got Start in Community CollegePlenty of successful people attended community college. The list includes George Lucas, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tom Hanks and Morgan Freeman. The first woman to command a shuttle mission, Eileen Collins, started her rise in community college and so did Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the first Hispanic woman elected to Congress. Among them is Dennis Bailey-Fougnier, who this month […]May 21, 2019AcademicsSenator Kamala Harris Speaks at Los Angeles Southwest CollegeCalifornia Sen. Kamala Harris said she will unveil Monday what she called “the first ever national priority on closing that pay gap and holding corporations accountable for transparency and closing that gap.” Corporations failing to do so will face penalties, Harris said Sunday at Los Angeles Southwest College at what was billed as the first […]May 21, 2019LeadershipTechnical Community College Bill Passes SenateBATON ROUGE — House Bill 89, Rep. Wayne McMahen’s bill to allow Northwest Louisiana Technical College to become a technical community college, passed the Louisiana Senate 63-0 Monday. The bill is the first step in a long process to bring community college status to NWLTC. Read MoreMay 21, 2019LeadershipNorthwest Louisiana Technical College Looking to Convert to Community CollegeMINDEN, LA (KSLA) – A Northwest Louisiana technical college is looking to expand and become a community college. State Representative Wayne McMahen has filed a bill that would allow Northwest Louisiana Technical College to expand and provide programs that would allow them to grant associate degrees. Read MoreMay 19, 2019LeadershipESCC Could Become Branch of Tidewater Community College, Accomack Supervisor SaysEastern Shore Community College could become a branch of Tidewater Community College if a three-year “reboot” plan at the Melfa institution isn’t successful, an member of the Accomack County Board of Supervisors said. Supervisor Robert Crockett said during a Wednesday meeting of the Accomack board that “there is a deep concern with enrollment” at the […]May 19, 2019AcademicsPCCD, Superior Court of Alameda County Partner for New Certificate ProgramsWhen officials from the Superior Court of Alameda County in California began to notice growing vacancies in its courtroom clerk and legal processing assistant (LPA) roles, they believed it would be an ideal situation to look to the area’s community colleges to address gaps in public service employees. Now, a strategic partnership between the court […]May 19, 2019FacultyCollege of DuPage Math Professor Wins AwardDr. Rita Patel, an associate professor of mathematics at College of DuPage, has received a major accolade from the Illinois section of the Mathematical Association of America – the 2019 Early Career Teaching Award for Extraordinarily Successful Teaching by a Beginning College or University Mathematics Faculty Member. The award honors beginning college or university faculty […]May 19, 2019Previous PagePage 83 of 286Next Page
