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Maine Community College System Could Double Nursing Grads Each Year Through Proposed Bill

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Michigan's Lansing Community College Performance Aims To Raise Suicide, Depression Awareness Through the Arts

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Study: A Nudge Goes a Long Way in Delivering Basic Needs Support

Research shows personalized emails have decisive impact on community college students accessing basic needs resources.

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Vaccinated Students Can Take One Free Class at Mott Community College

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Community College Student Housing Needs Heightened Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

Student housing at community colleges is somewhat rare — only 28% of community colleges in America have on-campus dormitory options for their students. But the last twenty years have seen a growing number of community colleges try to find creative ways to help their students who are housing or food insecure. “Students have to decide […]

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Community College Alumni Among Coronavirus Researchers

POTTSTOWN PA – Biotechnology program alumni from Montgomery County Community College are among researchers on the front line in the nation’s fight against the coronavirus pandemic. They’ve helped develop an antibody being used to detect the virus in patient testing samples. Alumni Amber Sawyer, Sean Heron and Seethal Meda are employees at Limerick Township-based Rockland […]

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City Colleges Faculty and Staff Threaten to Strike if Everyone Isn’t Allowed to Work Remotely This Fall: ‘I Can’t Risk Getting Sick’

Faculty and staff at City Colleges of Chicago are threatening to hold their first strike in more than a decade if administrators don’t allow all employees to work from home when fall classes begin in late August. While most instructors have been approved to teach remotely next semester, about 450 employees, including academic advisers and […]

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Adapting to a Crisis: How Portland Community College Harnessed Technology to Combat a Pandemic

When calamity strikes, creativity beckons. Such has been the “Covid chronicles” and its impact on Portland Community College. In a span of 10 days, Oregon’s largest post-secondary institution moved its operations entirely remote in advance of the spring term. It was a massive undertaking at breakneck speed, made possible because of technology. Read More

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Community Colleges Struggle With Students’ Food Needs as Pandemic Increases Demand

With reduced work hours and a baby on the way, Maraya Bermudez stocks up on groceries for the week at the food pantry on her community college campus. She frequented the Fullerton College food pantry sparingly during the school year, but she now goes every week to pick up bags that often include rice, beans, […]

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MCAC Cancels Fall Sports Impacting Seven Northland Community Colleges

Despite the slow return of athletic events this summer, fall sports are starting to feel the impact of COVID-19. The Minnesota College Athletic Conference (MCAC) has canceled all junior college contact sports this fall. This applies to football, soccer, and volleyball games, practices, training, or conditioning. Read More

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Thousands of Community College Students Withdraw After a Lost Semester Amid Coronavirus

Stevie Carpenter dropped out of high school, earned his GED, enrolled at L.A. City College and at age 25 has been accepted to attend UC Davis this fall, where he plans to study neurobiology. But the COVID-19 pandemic has thrown another major challenge at him: online classes. Carpenter couldn’t keep up with general chemistry, a […]

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Community College Students See Need for Mental Health Therapy

Stressed by classes, grades, jobs, personal issues and COVID-19, some California community college students are turning to mental health counseling. But the service is scarce and demand is high. The problem is significant: One major study found that community college students reported higher rates of academic impairment due to mental health struggles than students attending […]

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