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Finance

Why Free College Programs Succeed

In a report published last week, Jen Mishory, a senior fellow at the Century Foundation, sheds some light on an oft-debated topic in education circles: Do the benefits of “free college” programs outweigh the costs? There has been a proliferation of state-level “free college” programs in recent years. In 2014, Tennessee rolled out its Tennessee Promise initiative, […]

Leadership

Let Witch Trials Be a Lesson

Before four-year colleges became unreasonably expensive, community colleges used to get a bad rep. These days, however, most students and outsiders agree that community college is an affordable alternative that provides quality education on par with (and often even exceeds) traditional schools. So of course you get the opportunity to take some interesting courses such […]

Health

Colorado College Will Offer 4-Year Nursing Degree

Front Range Community College will soon offer a bachelor’s degree in nursing, according to a news release. The program is intended to help meet a growing need for skilled health care providers in Colorado, while offering students an affordable route to a job in their home state. At a meeting July 12, the State Board […]

Faculty

Virginia’s Shrinking Colleges Looking to Pivot

Nothing like losing a quarter of your customers to get your attention. That basically is what has happened to Virginia’s Community College System, with last term’s enrollment down 57,000 (actually only 22 percent) from its peak six years ago during the early days of the economic recovery. That drop exceeds the total enrollment at the […]

Health

Study: Community Colleges Hold Key to Diversity in Family Medicine

Health care leaders and policymakers across the country have long maintained that a robust primary care workforce is the best way to provide high-quality, continuous and affordable health care to a growing and diverse U.S. population. It’s also no secret that family medicine owns a bigger chunk of the primary care pie than any other […]

Academics

Inmates Earn Business Certificates with Honors

Twenty-two MCI-Shirley inmates received small business management certificates from Mount Wachusett Community College last month as part of the first class of a national pilot program. Mount Wachusett Community College was selected in 2016 by the U.S. Department of Education to participate in the Second Chance Pell pilot program aimed at reducing recidivism and strengthening […]

Other News

College Challenges Claim It Owes $10M in Retirement Funds

A months-long legal dispute over student pay, retirement funds and government authority is shining a spotlight on a rural community college in Southwest Michigan’s Cass County. Southwestern Michigan College, a community college in Dowagiac, sued the state of Michigan’s Office of the Auditor General over an investigation into the college’s contribution to a state-run teacher retirement fund. Read More

Academics

N.C. Governor Announces $7M ‘Finish Line’ Grants

Governor Cooper announced the Finish Line Grants program to help community college students who face unforeseen financial emergencies complete their training. The program will leverage up to $7 million in federal funds to help students pay for course materials, housing, medical needs, dependent care, or other financial emergencies that students may face through no fault […]

Technology

Gov. Brown Describes Progress on Online College

California is getting closer to rolling out a fully online, competency-based community college, which, if successful, would become the first community college of its kind nationwide. Gov. Jerry Brown, delivering remarks to the California Community Colleges Board of Governor in Sacramento on Monday, continued to push his plan to deliver a new type of online community college […]

Leadership

‘Say Yes’ First Class: Degrees Earned, Dropout Problem Remains

The high school Class of 2013 was the first in Buffalo to benefit from Say Yes to Education, the nonprofit that promises graduates free tuition at state colleges and universities. Four years later, more than a quarter of those who enrolled in college that first year had earned either a bachelor’s or associate degree. That’s […]

Technology

Young Minds Learn to Hack the Future

The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians hosted nearly 60 students from all over the state and country this week as part of its first “Hack the Future,” an event that encourages young coders, entrepreneurs and engineers to solve real-life problems using advanced technologies provided to them. The Office of Economic Development coordinated and came up […]

Leadership

Summer Program Encourages STEM Students

The annual Summer Community College Opportunity for Research Experience (SCCORE) engages students from New Mexico community colleges intending to transfer to UNM in STEM fields and to give them a unique undergraduate research opportunity to learn and apply scientific practices in a working lab. SCCORE is supported by the New Mexico Alliance for Minority Participation […]

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