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Health

Community College Alumni Among Coronavirus Researchers

POTTSTOWN PA – Biotechnology program alumni from Montgomery County Community College are among researchers on the front line in the nation’s fight against the coronavirus pandemic. They’ve helped develop an antibody being used to detect the virus in patient testing samples. Alumni Amber Sawyer, Sean Heron and Seethal Meda are employees at Limerick Township-based Rockland […]

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Scarnati Appeals Erie Community College Decision

Erie County’s prolonged fight for a community college is about to get even longer. In an appeal filed Friday with the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court, state Senate President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati is challenging the state Board of Education’s July 8 decision to approve the county’s community college application. Read More

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Coconino Community College Double-Times English for Veterans

Veterans who have served their country return to civilian life and often want to begin a college career. They’ve lived a little life after high school. They have common experiences from being in the military. And they, typically, have very specific goals when it comes to what they want from their education. Read More

Health

City Colleges Faculty and Staff Threaten to Strike if Everyone Isn’t Allowed to Work Remotely This Fall: ‘I Can’t Risk Getting Sick’

Faculty and staff at City Colleges of Chicago are threatening to hold their first strike in more than a decade if administrators don’t allow all employees to work from home when fall classes begin in late August. While most instructors have been approved to teach remotely next semester, about 450 employees, including academic advisers and […]

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How a Community College Heightens Its Commitment to Diversity

Enrolling more Black students full-time and supporting them in persisting and graduating are key elements of the Ventura County Community College District’s renewed commitment to diversity and inclusion. The board of trustees for the California district, which comprises 32,000 students at Moorpark, Oxard and Ventura colleges, has resolved to make removing systemic barriers that hinder the […]

Health

Adapting to a Crisis: How Portland Community College Harnessed Technology to Combat a Pandemic

When calamity strikes, creativity beckons. Such has been the “Covid chronicles” and its impact on Portland Community College. In a span of 10 days, Oregon’s largest post-secondary institution moved its operations entirely remote in advance of the spring term. It was a massive undertaking at breakneck speed, made possible because of technology. Read More

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Community Colleges See a Decrease in Enrollment Numbers

ROCKFORD (WREX) — Due to the pandemic, college students across the country have had a tough decision to make this year. Should they attend a community college? Should they try a 4-year university? “I didn’t want to go off to ISU because I didn’t want to spend the money there and I would have rather […]

Leadership

Ohlone Community College Welcomes First Black Superintendent President

Dr. Eric Bishop was recently named the seventh Superintendent/President of the Ohlone Community College District and the first Black president in the district’s history. While some institutions of higher learning stopped their hiring processes Ohlone, with campuses in Fremont and Newark, has not. Read More

Workforce Development

Roueche Center Forum: Diversifying the Undergraduate Engineering Education Pathway – An Opportunity for the Community College

Vision 2030, a recently released report from the National Science Board (NSB), is the latest in a plethora of warnings that the American way of life is threatened because we are in danger of falling behind in STEM, the disciplines that have powered American prosperity for decades. The current COVID-19 pandemic demonstrates the power and promise […]

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Wisconsin’s Madison College Establishes ‘George Floyd Memorial Scholarship’

Madison College plans to offer a new scholarship to support the black community and racial equity. The technical college is in the process of establishing the ‘George Floyd Memorial Scholarship.’ Madison College President Dr. Jack Daniels says it will be available to black students who are 25-years-old or older. “As we look at our unemployment […]

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Pennsylvania’s Harrisburg Area Community College Launches New Diversity Fund

Harrisburg Area Community College is launching a million dollar diversity fund. It will help offer resources, including mentors and on-campus diversity programs. The board of trustees will give $200,000 to the fund for each of the next five years. “We have an employee professional development opportunity through the fund,” Dr. Armenta Hinton, vice president of […]

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A Surge in Dual Enrollment

Some community colleges are seeing a big surge in dual enrollments that is likely due to the coronavirus pandemic. Several college leaders cite several factors that are leading more high school students to seek college credits: There is uncertainty over whether high schools will reopen in the fall. Jobs and sports aren’t available. And, in […]

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