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Train 5 Million in 5 Years

Millions of apprentices have been trained over the past 75 years through the U.S. Department of Labor, but 2017 saw an invigorated call to action. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff challenged the nation to create 5 million apprenticeships in just five years, a concept receiving bipartisan support and endorsement from the White House, to strengthen the […]

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Just Vocational Schools?

As the president of a community college less than 10 miles from the White House, I was surprised to hear that President Donald Trump believes “many people don’t know what a community college means or represents” and that schools like mine should instead be considered “vocational schools,” a moniker of an earlier era. (Spoken to […]

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Online College Needed

A bad news/good news workforce situation exists in today’s economy, and it is giving employers heartburn. The challenge is how to create a more educated labor pool, especially in high growth industries. The bad news: there are simply not enough skilled workers to meet the needs of California’s businesses. The good news: there are 2.5 […]

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Educating the Incarcerated

A judicial reform campaign over the past few years to reduce recidivism among low-level criminal offenders in Utah may soon be bolstered in a significant way by a measure that would expand an innovative pilot program in Cache County to offer vocational training to defendants in lieu of incarceration. A proposal before the Legislature would […]

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Make It Free

For years, the act of paying for college has had families across the country wringing their hands with anxiety and worry. In West Virginia, where only 33 percent of adults aged 25 to 64 have a post-secondary degree or certificate, many students don’t even consider attending one of the state’s community and technical colleges due […]

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Sign of Vanity?

Where we live, high school senior promgoers often take pictures with each teen holding up a small sign of where they are attending college in the fall. Both the teens in front of the lens and the parents behind are glowing with pride. Both in-state and out-of-state school names are held up, public and private, […]

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2 Bad Ideas

It’s the first week of classes in the San Diego Community College District where I teach, and, as has become almost an annual ritual, the new year comes with a number of suspect education reforms from Sacramento. Jerry Brown released his budget proposal recently, and unfortunately, there are two big, bad ideas that the Governor […]

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Florida’s Choice

Imagine you alone get to decide the fate of higher education in Florida. Maybe you’d keep it as is, with 28 state colleges serving a majority of students, even though universities get four times the money that they do. The state colleges—once called community colleges—would continue to take in most of the state’s minority and […]

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Path to Progress

During last week’s State of the State address, Gov. Jim Justice introduced the West Virginia Invests Grant Program to universal applause as the pathway to good-paying jobs and economic growth. It creates a program designed to provide free community college tuition to every high school student who wants to further their education. The governor credited […]

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Will Online-Only Work?

We have heard the horror stories: Students attend their local community college, bright-eyed, bushy-tailed and planning to bolt after two years. Then, five years later, they’re still around, struggling to get into classes they need to graduate. It is part of the trade-off of attending a two-year community college — sure, the ease of admission […]

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Jobs Are Here

The tragic loss of Austin Wilson, an apprentice on the PBS television series “This Old House” and recent New Hanover High School graduate, prompted us to applaud him in this space for helping make young people aware of the opportunities in construction trades. He had honed his skills at the Wilmington nonprofit Kids Making It […]

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Tackle Debt

Students struggling to shoulder the burden of their college loans could find some relief in the reforms that Gov. Andrew Cuomo has proposed. The state’s chief executive has pledged to try to help alleviate the fear that many students have when they apply for loans. A major problem in the past, it seems, is that […]

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