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Reducing the Cost of Higher Education Through the Invaluable Mission of Community Colleges and Affordable HBCUs

Our nation’s community colleges and historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) possess a mutual strength that often goes underappreciated. This strength involves meeting the future needs of students interested in transferring to diverse schools such as HBCUs, women’s colleges, and other minority-serving institutions. Historically Black institutions and community colleges share a mutual responsibility in collectively […]

Dr. Christopher Wayne Robinson

Mott Community College Offering Free Tuition to Qualifying Students Through STEM Scholars Program

Mott Community College is offering free tuition to students who qualify through its STEM Scholars program. The program is aimed at academically talented students that plan on attending college full-time to complete an Associate in Science degree and are interested in a STEM-related career after graduation. Read More

Mott Community College

Baton Rouge Community College and IBM Partner to Provide Resources for Job-Seekers

Job seekers, some of whom are reinventing their career prospects amid the economic disruption of COVID-19, now have another option for learning new job skills: digital coursework and assistance from Baton Rouge Community College, the BRCC Foundation and IBM, a news release said. Read More

Baton Rouge Community College

Harford Community College Alumnus Establishes Freedom Scholarship

Harford Community College alumnus Weiping Qin ’20 knows firsthand how important a college scholarship or grant can be to a student. To show his appreciation for the financial aid he received as a student at Harford, Qin established a scholarship to support student leaders as well as students who have served in the military. Read […]

African American Male Community College Students Must Have Educational Abroad Experiences in Africa

Recently, the authors of this current piece, as part of the African American Male Education Network and Development (A2MEND) cultural exchange program, accompanied a group of 10 community college mentees on an education abroad experience to Senegal, West Africa. Read More

Dr. Nana Lawson Bush

San Mateo County’s Community Colleges Won’t Reopen Until January 2022

Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to reopen schools by March 31, but that doesn’t apply to community colleges in San Mateo County, whose board has decided to keep classrooms closed until January. The proposal by Chancellor Mike Claire didn’t draw much criticism at last Wednesday’s board meeting, though Trustee John Pimentel said he wanted to wait […]

Iowa Community Colleges Form Development Consortium

In the wake of COVID-19 and the challenges and demands presented with virtual learning, the 15 community colleges in Iowa have created the Iowa Faculty Development Consortium to assist community college faculty by providing professors with the knowledge and tools to best educate students, either in the classroom or virtually. Read More

Indian Hills Community College

Community College Leaders Strategize Solutions to Student Success Barriers

As the challenges—enrollment, limited technology access, food and housing insecurities—persist from the COVID-19 pandemic, community colleges are seeking solutions. The virtual Innovations Conference, hosted by the League for Innovation in the Community College this week, is providing a space for community college leaders to collaborate and problem solve strategies to promote student success. “As we […]

Dr. Jean Goodnow

Scholarships Are Now Available for Cannabis Job Training at Holyoke Community College

The Cannabis Education Center at Holyoke Community College has announced that they are offering scholarships to students who enroll in its March 2021 cannabis training program. The two-day “Cannabis Core” training will begin on March 20, and end on March 21, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The training program will be broken down into […]

Holyoke Community College

Flint Mayor, State Rep Promote Free Community College Program for Michigan Residents

Flint Mayor Sheldon Neeley and State Rep. Cynthia Neeley, D-Flint, took part in a Zoom press conference Monday to promote a new program that provides free community college tuition to eligible Michiganders. Launched at the beginning of February, the Michigan Reconnect program is building on the success of the state’s Futures for Frontliners program, which has […]

Flint Mayor Sheldon Neeley

Louisiana Health Provider Teams With Community College to Address Nurse Shortage

Louisiana health care provider Ochsner Health has committed $20 million to the nursing program at Delgado Community College in New Orleans. The announcement comes as the Louisiana State Board of Nursing forecasts a significant shortage of nurses across the state over the next several years. Read More

Delgado Community College

California’s Failure to Diversify Community College Faculty Tied to Arcane State Law

At a time of renewed focus on race and equity across academia, the nation’s largest higher-education system is saddled with a byzantine and failing strategy to diversify its teaching ranks to more closely reflect its student body. California’s 115 community colleges, serving a diverse student body of more than 1.2 million full-time students, rely on […]

Community College Chancellor Eloy Ortiz Oakley

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College of Southern Maryland

Jobmarket

Graduate Job Market Hits Five-Year Low as Skills Gap Widens Between Higher Ed and Employers

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