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Foundation Awards $116M Grant to LaGuardia Community College
The gift to LaGuardia Community College helps create a state-of-the-art workforce training center.
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Anne Arundel Community College Builds Center with Local Donations
Anne Arundel Community College turned to the community to raise $4.25 million to construct new building.
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Iowa Awards Community Colleges $4M to Prepare Students to Fill Jobs
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College Promise Programs Launch Innovative Solutions to Achieve Economic Mobility
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, unemployment in the United States reached 14.8% in April 2020. Given the high number of hiring freezes and job losses, post-secondary enrollment and revenue plummeted. Earning an education was no longer attainable or affordable for many potential and current students. Now, as the nation turns toward recovery, College […]
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Colleges Respond to Demand for More Nurses Through Partnership for Four-Year Degree
MARINETTE, Wis. (WBAY) – The coronavirus has put increasing demands on the health care industry in the past several months. This comes as the Administrators of Nursing Education of Wisconsin predicts a shortage of 27,000 nurses in the state in the next 20 years. Two colleges are trying to address those concerns with new options […]
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Community Colleges, Facing Major Enrollment Drops, Prep for a Virtual Fall Semester
Community colleges typically face a predictable calculus: Unemployment goes up, more people seek job training and affordable tuition, so enrollment rises. The economy improves, unemployment goes down, and enrollment drops. But the coronavirus pandemic has broken all the rules. Despite high unemployment, Thomas Nelson and Tidewater community colleges are facing significant enrollment declines. As of […]
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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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25 Illinois Community Colleges Make It Easier for Employers to Recruit Their Job-Ready Talent, for Free
Illinois employers seeking job-ready talent now have a free resource to post jobs: the Illinois Community Colleges Jobs Consortium website, powered by College Central Network, Inc. (CCN). The CollegeCentral.com/ilccjobs website makes it both free and easy for all employers–large and small, public and private–to register just once and then post an unlimited number of jobs […]
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NIFA Invests $4.8 Million to Train Agricultural Workforce Through Community Colleges
On June 10 the National Institute of Food and Agriculture announced an investment of $4.8 million to support 12 projects that will offer workforce training by community colleges. These awards are made possible through the Agricultural and Food Research Initiative’s Agricultural Workforce Training program priority area. This is the first time that the NIFA has […]
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How Workforce Credentials Can Become More Accessible After COVID-19
U.S. employers cut 20.5 million jobs in April, according to a U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics report. Meanwhile, the national unemployment rate surged to 14.7% this month. People need work, and for some, that’s going to mean going back to school for new credentials. With the pandemic as a backdrop, a webinar – hosted by […]
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Michigan Governor Proposes Free College For Frontline Workers
Michigan workers helping on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic may be able to pursue a college degree for free, reported CNN. The state’s governor, Gretchen Whitmer, on Wednesday proposed “Futures for Frontliners,” a program that if approved by lawmakers will be available to “essential workers” without a college degree. The program is intended to […]
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Report Highlights Impact of Prior Learning Assessments
As part of the Association of Community College Trustees’ (ACCT) focus on developing community college workforce strategies, a new policy brief analyzes the impact of prior learning assessments. The report, “Make It Count: Recognizing Prior Learning for Workforce Development,” focused on older students, working students and veterans, who can all benefit from earning credit through […]
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