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Workforce Development

West Virginia Community College Bill Passes First Step in Legislation Process

Senate Bill 1, legislation designed to provide greater access to community college career education and workforce training, has recently passed the West Virginia Senate Education Committee, but still has a ways to go before the possibility of becoming state legislation. The bill is also presented to the West Virginia Senate Finance Committee before it goes to the […]

Heartland Community College Board Contemplate Increase in Tuition, Fees

Heartland Community College’s Board of Trustees are considering an increase to tuition and fees beginning next fall as a result of a recent deficit in the college’s budget that is projected to continue next year.

Mayoral Candidate Proposes to Combine Chicago’s Public K-12, Community College Systems

In an effort to increase degree attainment across Chicago, Democratic mayoral candidate, Bill Daley, has recently proposed that the public K-12 and community college systems merge. Daley’s proposal would magnify current Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s Chicago Star Scholarship, a benefit that covers tuition and textbook costs at the City Colleges for Chicago Public Schools (CPS) students earning a […]

Get COCC out of North Lake County

As a second generation Central Oregon Community College student, I am proud of the college and what it has done for my family and our community. However, I am also aware of its flaws, including its limited investment in online learning. As a working parent, I had to take most of my nursing prerequisite courses […]

Proposed New Hampshire Career Academy Program Would Help Student Obtain Degree Tuition-Free

At his second inaugural address, New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu promised the creation of the New Hampshire Career Academy, a partnership involving community colleges, employers and local high schools that will allow driven and capable students to pursue a tuition-free associate degree. If the initiative goes as planned over the following year, it could potentially […]

Salt Lake’s Open Educational Resources Help Students Pay for Courses, Gain Access to Materials

Salt Lake Community College (SLCC)’s math department’s free open educational math resources program, OPEN SLCC, helps make college affordable by reducing textbook costs for mathematics-related courses and making sure that students are ready for the first day of class. Since its launch in fall 2014, OPEN SLCC has saved students almost $8 million in textbook […]

Community College Grant Program Bill to be Reintroduce to WV Senate

Senate Bill 1, an updated version of Senate Bill 284 that was passed last year, will be back on the Senate table when the legislative session begins this week. The bill will establish a grant program for West Virginia’s Community and Technical College students. “We have many, many jobs in West Virginia that go unfilled […]

More DREAMs come true in California: How tuition waivers opened doors for undocumented students

California decided to crack open the door to higher education a little more for undocumented students through the California DREAM Act. In a new study of the impact of this 2013 policy, education researcher Samantha Astudillo and I discovered that it helped put undocumented students on equal footing with students who are U.S. citizens in […]

City College to drop one third of class offerings over 7 years

City College of San Francisco administrators say they need to permanently cancel as much as a third of the school’s class offerings over the next several years to fix what they describe as 20-year structural budget problem. Read more

Workforce Development

Federal grant to create jobs-training program at Stonehill College, Bridgewater State

EASTON —A new jobs-training program is coming to Stonehill College courtesy of a $570,000 federal grant and an emerging technology called integrated photonics. By using light, rather than electricity, to transmit and process information, proponents of the technology say it can speed up the transfer of data while using less energy, potentially revolutionizing the storage […]

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SUNY Schenectady allies with Cazenovia College for education degrees

SCHENECTADY — Students at SUNY Schenectady will, starting in 2019, be able to get four-year teaching degrees thanks to an agreement with Cazenovia College that was reached on Monday. The concept is to let students who reside in Schenectady remain at home and get their bachelor’s in education, according to SUNY Schenectady President Steady Moono. […]

LCCC’s SAIL program provides help for low-income students

Lorain County Community College showcased its Students Accelerating in Learning program Dec. 12 at the college’s Norton Culinary Arts Center, 1005 Abbe Road. The program, launched in 2015, financially assists college students, making it easier to graduate. Students Accelerating in Learning, also known as SAIL, was modeled after the Accelerated Study in Associate Programs, also […]

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