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Mesa Announces Free Community College Tuition

Residents and eligible graduating students in Mesa can now apply to Mesa Community College for the 2021 fall semester with tuition costs fully covered for two years, officials announced. Read More

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Lawmaker Wants to Bring Early Childhood Bachelor’s Programs to Community Colleges

A bill that would allow community colleges to grant bachelor’s degrees for early childhood education is awaiting consideration before the Senate Higher Education Committee. Senate Bill 1832, sponsored by Sen. Cristina Pacione-Zayas, D-Chicago, would give Illinois community colleges the option to apply for accreditation to offer a baccalaureate-level early education program. Read More

Sen. Cristina Pacione-Zayas

Report: Employers Value Liberal Education

Employers value active and applied learning experiences according to a new report from the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). Read More

Dr. Lynn Pasquerella

Virginia Community College Leaders React to Tuition-Free Initiative

With bipartisan support, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam’s tuition-free community college initiative, “Get Skilled, Get a Job, Give Back (G3),” was signed into legislation last week. Read More

Dr. Anne M. Kress

Get Paid to Get Vaccinated? JCCC Offering $250 to All Employees to Get COVID-19 Shots

Johnson County Community College is offering employees a one-time $250 payment to get the COVID-19 vaccine, as the college makes plans to open up campus more fully for in-person classes in the fall. Read More

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Bill Would Create New Nevada Community College System

A bill introduced in the Legislature is aimed at creating a separate governing body for Nevada’s community colleges — something proponents have pushed for years. Senate Bill 321, introduced March 22 and referred to the Senate Education Committee, would create the Nevada System of Community Colleges. The bill’s primary sponsors are Sens. James Settelmeyer, R-Minden; […]

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California Community Colleges Chancellor Eloy Ortiz Oakley Is 2021 Diverse Champion

Growing up in Southeast Los Angeles as the son of a U.S. citizen father educated in Mexico and a mother who was a Mexican immigrant, Eloy Ortiz Oakley says that he could not have imagined a journey that would take him to leading the largest higher education system in the U.S. However, Oakley says that […]

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Stakeholders Call for Focus on Equity as Community Colleges Recover From COVID-19 Crisis

Last year colleges and universities were forced to temporarily close their doors as COVID-19 spread throughout the country. Virtual instruction became the norm as institutions worked to continue with classes while mitigating transmission risks, and meeting students’ basic needs became the focal point as food and housing insecurity were exacerbated by the pandemic. Finding affordable […]

Monica Parrish Trent

PepsiCo Announces $40 Million Community College Program to Support 4,000 Black and Hispanic Students

PepsiCo and its philanthropic arm, The PepsiCo Foundation, have announced that they are presenting opportunities for Black and Hispanic students. PepsiCo is launching a new $40 million scholarship and professional mentoring program that will support Black and Hispanic aspiring and graduating community college students. The programs are launching in Dallas, Westchester, Houston, and Chicago, and […]

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IWPR Report Highlights Challenges of Student-Parents

Upon moving from New York to Pennsylvania due to the high cost of living, Irene Price and her husband struggled to find living wage jobs without a college degree. Those financial challenges increased after the birth of their first child. Wanting more stability and flexibility in her work schedule, Irene Price decided to pursue an […]

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Making Higher Education A Possibility For All – An Interview with Chancellor Eloy Ortiz Oakley

Growing up in Southeast Los Angeles, Chancellor Eloy Ortiz Oakley never thought that the struggles he had faced and overcome in his youth would bring him on a path to leading the largest college system in the country. As the 2021 recipient of the Diverse Champions Award, Oakley joins us in this episode to talk […]

Community College Enrollment Is Down 10%. Here’s How Schools Hope to Help Students Return

Enrollment at community colleges is down. The data is clear, says Dr. Martha Parham, senior vice president of public relations for the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC). Data from the National Student Clearinghouse shows that enrollment in fall 2020 was down 10.6% from fall 2019 for full-time students and 9.9% for part-time students. The […]

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Higher Ed Joins March on Wall Street to Defend DEI Programs

Most States Fail to Adequately Support Newly-Arrived Immigrant Students, New Report Finds

America's $1.7 Trillion Moral Crisis: A Searing Indictment of Higher Education’s Broken Promise