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Upstate N.Y. Colleges Partner on Workforce Development
TROY — The five community colleges serving the greater Capital Region announced a partnership Tuesday to create better career paths for students. The Capital Community College Career Coalition, or C5, seeks to have a greater combined impact doing what each of the five has been doing on its own to greater or lesser degree for […]
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Brookings Report: Free College Benefits Unclear
The price of college is rising, making college feel out of reach for a rising share of Americans. Families can borrow to be sure, but with total student loan debt now above $1 trillion nationally, the situation seems unsustainable. Meanwhile, we face a long-term decline in our international ranking on college attainment and the disparities […]
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Tennessee Colleges Out Front on Reforms, Columbia U. Study Says
Tennessee’s community colleges are “probably the furthest along in implementing guided pathways reforms” of any community college system in the nation, according to a new study by Columbia University in New York City that was funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. “All 13 Tennessee community colleges are reforming their programs, policies, and processes […]
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Tennessee Colleges Struggle to Meet Demand of Reconnect Program
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Class is back in session at community colleges around the state, but officials say thousands couldn’t attend Monday. The Tennessee Reconnect program received so many applicants that many were turned away from the free tuition program. “I’ve been talking about going back to school for years,” said Kim Bare, a TN Reconnect student. […]
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Facebook Launches Partnership on Digital Marketing
Facebook announced on Aug. 27 that it is working with Canada College in Redwood City and Foothill College in Los Altos to develop a digital marketing certificate that will be offered through those community colleges. The courses are expected to be available to students for enrollment in early 2019, and will teach students how to […]
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Thousands More Tennesseans Than Expected Apply for Free Tuition
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Officials say a new program allowing adults to attend community college or technical schools tuition-free in Tennessee has received thousands more applications than anticipated. The Tennessean reported Monday that Tennessee Reconnect is in its first year and roughly 31,000 adults have applied. State Higher Education Commission Executive Director Mike Krause says the […]
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Colleges Ramp Up Cloud Computing Education
A group of community colleges in Southern California is working with Amazon Web Services and its education program to develop college credit courses for a cloud computing career pathway that starts in high school, continues through college and leads to industry certifications. The goal of the “CA Cloud Workforce Consortia” is to expand this common […]
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Prisoners on Track to Receive Associate’s Degrees
Fifty seven incarcerated students at Pamlico Correctional Institution were recognized on Thursday for their commitment to the first year of an associate’s degree program that could eventually expand throughout the state’s prisons. “I think that this is a prototype that can be copied and that it will work anywhere where you have the same amount […]
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Veto in N.J. Halves $1B Bonds for Vo-Tech, Community Colleges
Gov. Phil Murphy has blocked the Legislature’s push to issue $1 billion in bonds for school upgrades statewide, instead opting to halve the amount to $500 million that the state could borrow. Murphy’s conditional veto of Senate Bill 2293, formally called the “Security Our Children’s Future Bond Act,” bounces the bill back to the state […]
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Rating Best and Worst Colleges for Certificates
Earlier this year, Donald Trump said this to a group of Republican lawmakers: “Today you have community colleges and you have all of the—when I was growing up we had vocational schools . . . You learn mechanical, you learn bricklaying and carpentry and all of these things. We don’t have that very much anymore. […]
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U.S. Awards $2.5M to 3 Ky. Colleges to Train for Manufacturing
HAZARD, Ky. — The federal government has awarded $2.5 million in grants to three Kentucky community colleges that will work together to train a workforce for advanced manufacturing employers. The Commerce Department said in a news release the project is expected to create 261 jobs. The department’s Economic Development Administration awarded the grant, which is […]
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Port Long Beach, College Team Up to Train Workers
The Port of Long Beach and Long Beach City College last week launched a one-year pilot program to train new workers in the supply chain and logistics space, with a set of education programs for students looking for opportunities beyond high school but shorter than four-year college degrees. The Port of Long Beach Maritime Center […]
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