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Workforce Development

Veto in N.J. Halves $1B Bonds for Vo-Tech, Community Colleges

Gov. Phil Murphy has blocked the Legislature’s push to issue $1 billion in bonds for school upgrades statewide, instead opting to halve the amount to $500 million that the state could borrow. Murphy’s conditional veto of Senate Bill 2293, formally called the “Security Our Children’s Future Bond Act,” bounces the bill back to the state […]

Workforce Development

Rating Best and Worst Colleges for Certificates

Earlier this year, Donald Trump said this to a group of Republican lawmakers: “Today you have community colleges and you have all of the—when I was growing up we had vocational schools . . . You learn mechanical, you learn bricklaying and carpentry and all of these things. We don’t have that very much anymore. […]

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California: Graduate More Students or Lose Funding

California’s politicians and educators are getting serious about how to solve an immense and vexing problem — the graduation rate at the community colleges. Until now, nothing has worked — indeed, the graduation rate slipped 1% over the past decade. Shockingly, research shows that 70% of California’s 2.1 million community college students neither earn a […]

Academics

W.Va. Gov Wants Panel to Focus on 4-Year Colleges

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Gov. Jim Justice doesn’t want to make two-year community and technical colleges a high priority for a group reviewing West Virginia’s higher education system. Justice says in a news release Wednesday the Blue Ribbon Commission on Four-Year Higher Education will identify ways to help four-year institutions run more efficiently before expanding its […]

Workforce Development

U.S. Awards $2.5M to 3 Ky. Colleges to Train for Manufacturing

HAZARD, Ky. — The federal government has awarded $2.5 million in grants to three Kentucky community colleges that will work together to train a workforce for advanced manufacturing employers. The Commerce Department said in a news release the project is expected to create 261 jobs. The department’s Economic Development Administration awarded the grant, which is […]

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Apprenticeship Program to Address Skills

McHenry County College will launch a new apprenticeship training program this fall to address the skills gap in manufacturing and other industries, in partnership with area employers and the McHenry County Workforce Network. The program is supported by grants that will be used to train and employ individuals for high-demand, well-paying positions with local industries. […]

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Ben Jealous Pushes Free Tuition Plan to Include DREAMers

Ben Jealous, the Democratic candidate for governor in Maryland has announced a plan to expand his free tuition community college plan to include DREAMers, or undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children. “This is about every Marylander in every zip code,” Jealous said. “When we first made K-12 education free we unleashed […]

Workforce Development

Port Long Beach, College Team Up to Train Workers

The Port of Long Beach and Long Beach City College last week launched a one-year pilot program to train new workers in the supply chain and logistics space, with a set of education programs for students looking for opportunities beyond high school but shorter than four-year college degrees. The Port of Long Beach Maritime Center […]

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College in Iowa Revamps Nursing Program

DAVENPORT, Iowa — Eastern Iowa Community Colleges is revamping its nursing program after a wave of resignations from staffers alleging the college overworked faculty, didn’t invest in new equipment and ignored teachers trying to make improvements. The nursing program is the college’s largest career program with more than 300 students, offered at all three campuses […]

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California Colleges Try New Pathway to Student Success

California’s community colleges are embarking on the most far-reaching reform they have ever adopted, in a bid to tackle their biggest challenge: to improve on historically low rates of student graduation and transfers to 4-year colleges and universities. Lawmakers allocated $150 million over the last year to put in place the approach, known as “Guided […]

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Schools Confront Challenges to Train Techs

If new-vehicle dealers expect fixed operations to generate most of their future profits, they should be deeply involved in educating the next generation of technicians who will staff their service and collision departments. That’s the message from educators and industry trade groups that see more baby boomer techs hanging up their wrenches and fewer newcomers […]

Workforce Development

Automakers Broaden Efforts to Help Train, Keep Service Techs

Warren DeBardelaben, Nissan North America’s director of dealer support, has overseen the automaker’s service technician training program since 2006. In that time, he says, more than 5,000 techs have graduated from it. “And it’s still not enough,” DeBardelaben told Fixed Ops Journal. “We’re still short.” About 9,500 upper-level service technicians work at the automaker’s Nissan […]

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