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Alabama Community College Hopes for Higher Enrollment Amid Pandemic

Alabama’s Jefferson State Community College hopes to maintain and grow enrollment numbers for the fall 2020 semester. “I think our overall enrollment will hopefully be level and maybe even up a little bit,” Jefferson State Vice President of Student Affairs Mike Hobbs said. Hobbs said he thinks the pandemic could drive more students to enroll […]

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New Scholarship at Ohio’s Lakeland Community College Aims to Fill Local Health Care Shortage

Lakeland Community College, in partnership with Medical Mutual of Ohio and Lake Health, has announced a new scholarship available for students in health care fields that have critical shortages. Medical Mutual of Ohio has established the new scholarship fund through the Lake Health Foundation. According to the school, the funding amount totaling $100,000 will help defray the […]

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American Association of Community Colleges Honors This Year’s Select Leaders

The American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) on Thursday honored the recipients of its 2020 Leadership Award and the Harry S. Truman Award, as well as an award for leadership in diversity presented by a trade publication. The annual awards ceremony is held during the AACC annual convention, which was canceled this year due to the pandemic. […]

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Navigating New Campus Sexual Assault Investigation Rules Will Be Challenging, Say Some Colleges

Whether new federal rules governing how to resolve cases of on-campus sex crimes will, as many critics fear, prompt some victims to stay silent about being assaulted is yet to be shown. Nevertheless, in the lead-up to an Aug. 14 deadline to comply with those regulations, many colleges and universities, as well as attorneys, acknowledge that navigating […]

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Too Early to Assess Fall Enrollment at Community Colleges, Say Experts

While some experts are expecting a jump in the popularity of two-year institutions due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the data doesn’t yet reflect such a trend. “Community college enrollment tends to be countercyclical,” said Paul Feist, vice chancellor for communications at the California Community Colleges’ chancellor’s office. Based on experiences during previous economic downturns, it […]

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California Community College Athletic Association Moves All Fall Sports to 2021

The California Community College Athletic Association, which has 110-member colleges and approximately 24,000 student-athletes, has approved a contingency plan to move all fall sports to the spring season. The association further said the return to athletics in January will only occur if it is safe to do so and that decision will be guided by […]

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National Junior College Athletic Association Moving Football Season to Spring Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

The National Junior College Athletic Association voted on Monday to move most of its sports, including football, to the spring amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The decision will allow football teams to start preseason practices on March 1, with an eight-game regular season starting at the end of the month and running through May. It will impact 512 […]

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Drop in Virginia Jail’s Expenses Creates Way to Pay Community College Tuition

Closing courts in Tazewell County because of the pandemic has created a way to pay the tuition for county students at Southwest Virginia Community College (SVCC) for the rest of this year. “The regional jail expense decreased by $275,000 due to the COVID-19 shutdown of the court system,” said County Administrator Eric Young. That money […]

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Charlottesville Sheriff Joins Task Force to Examine Criminal Justice Programs at Virginia Community Colleges

Virginia’s Community College System is reevaluating how it teaches police officers. Criminal justice degrees are some of the most popular programs at community colleges. With calls for police reform echoing nationwide the Virginia Community College System (VCCS) has created a task force to take a look at how it trains the next generation of law […]

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Community Colleges Struggle With Students’ Food Needs as Pandemic Increases Demand

With reduced work hours and a baby on the way, Maraya Bermudez stocks up on groceries for the week at the food pantry on her community college campus. She frequented the Fullerton College food pantry sparingly during the school year, but she now goes every week to pick up bags that often include rice, beans, […]

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Alabama Community Colleges Ask for $95M in COVID-19 Relief Funds for Tech Improvements

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Alabama Community College System is asking Gov. Kay Ivey for over $95 million in coronavirus relief funds to improve its distance learning and technology capabilities in light of growing challenges created by the pandemic. The ACCS is requesting around $95.8 million to improve remote instruction and learning, including developing a ACCSOnline […]

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Maine’s Community Colleges Will Keep 70% of Instruction Online This Fall

Maine’s community colleges will reopen campuses for limited hands-on instruction this fall and allow students back into dorms. The Maine Community College System’s announcement on Thursday follows the release of many other Maine colleges and universities’ plans to resume in-person instruction to a limited degree. Read More

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