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Workforce Development

How Community College Helps to Fill Indiana’s 85,000 Open Jobs

For students at any Ivy Tech Community College campus in Indiana, the opportunity to train on Silicon Valley’s latest software is just a classroom away. Ivy Tech, the nation’s largest single-accreditation college system, with over 170,000 students across 40 campuses in the Midwestern state, is using workforce development partnerships with 15 of the leading technology companies in […]

Other News

W.Va. Leaders Raise Concern Over Overlap

After state lawmakers demanded a funding formula proposal for their colleges, a couple of school presidents worried about competing for students with schools that have loose enrollment requirements. But these weren’t four-year college presidents talking about West Virginia’s community colleges. It was the other way around. Those community college presidents, alongside Community and Technical College […]

Academics

California Schools Admit Record Number of Transfer Students

SAN FRANCISCO — The University of California has admitted a record number of in-state transfer students for the upcoming academic year, as part of UC’s plan to expand access to the university system for California community college students, officials said Wednesday. UC system officials said its nine undergraduate campuses had offered admission to nearly 137,000 […]

Workforce Development

N.C. Governor Announces $7 M for Workforce Training

North Carolina community college students hit by an unexpected financial crunch could have a new option to help them complete their degree. Gov. Roy Cooper said Thursday he’s tapping into a federal program that could provide grants of up to $1,000 per semester for students close to finishing their degree or credential. Cooper’s office says […]

Leadership

Protestors Blast L.A. Trustees for Picking Man Over 3 Black Women

The board room was packed. The anger was palpable. For more than an hour, speaker after speaker blasted Los Angeles Community College District trustees this week for selecting a Latino man over African American women to fill a vacant board seat. The board’s choice of David Vela, a former Montebello school board member with deep […]

Leadership

College Keeps Accreditation, Gets Probation

LAS VEGAS, N.M. — Luna Community College in New Mexico learned it will retain its national accreditation from the Higher Learning Commission. The Las Vegas Optic reports the commission, in a letter received by the college Monday, announced it is ending the show-cause order it issued to Luna last November and is placing the college […]

Academics

Ask Geoffrey Canada If College is Necessary

Geoffrey Canada stood before a room full of community leaders at a Kansas Health Foundation symposium recently and shared his personal rule of thumb. “When you’re faced with something and you don’t know what the answer is,” he said, “always do what rich people do.” The audience of nearly 200 teachers, health care workers, elected […]

Workforce Development

Companies, Colleges in Partnerships for Emerging Technology

As recent graduates enter the workforce, many employers are not as confident in the skills these new entrants bring with them. Only 35 percent of employers report feeling confident that new recruits are well prepared with hard technical skills and “soft skills” such as complex problem-solving and analytical reasoning, according to a recent Bloomberg Next report. “Business and academia are […]

Workforce Development

Employers: No Degree? No Problem

Nine in 10 employers report being ready to accept candidates without four-year college degrees to fill positions in an increasingly tight labor market. Companies are open to hiring candidates with a recognized certification (66 percent), a certificate (66 percent), an online degree from massive open online courses (47 percent) or a digital badge (24 percent) […]

Workforce Development

College Will Launch Apprenticeships

Elgin Community College this fall is partnering with local businesses to launch apprenticeship programs in industrial maintenance and nursing assistance. Officials plan to run a small pilot program with up to five students in each program. A few other suburban community colleges offer apprenticeship programs, which are in demand nationally. “This initiative is part of […]

Finance

California to Offer Grants for Full-Time Study

In an effort to get students to earn degrees in two or four years, California will give up to $4,000 in grants to community college students who take a full 15-hour course load starting this fall. Rewarding community college students with extra money for going full-time is another way the state is seeking to increase the […]

Workforce Development

Report: L.A. Trade-Tech Officials Got $157,000 for Undetailed Work

Five years ago, the Los Angeles Community College District won one of its biggest federal grants: $19.2 million to help students gain training and skills for the fast-growing healthcare industry. Los Angeles Trade-Technical College was selected to lead the effort on behalf of the district’s nine community colleges and industry partners. Trade-Tech President Laurence Frank […]

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