U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona gets a first-hand look at the nursing program at Ivy Tech Community College’s Valparaiso campus. The Indiana college was among the stops on the secretary’s annual Back-to-School bus tour. (Photo: U.S. Education Department)Lakeshore College this month hosted a ribbon-cutting at the opening of its Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin Center for Health Care Excellence, which will double the college’s potential annual training capacity to 1,500 students. The college’s foundation raised $3 million for the project, including $1 million – the largest donation in the college’s history – from Froedtert Health and Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity. (Photo: Lakeshore College)U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper (D-Colorado) visits Aims Community College’s Flight Training Center at the Northern Colorado Regional Airport. The tour gave Hickenlooper (center) a view of the college’s aircraft and flight simulators and the opportunity to meet with aviation students and faculty. (Photo: Aims Community College)U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy David Turk (right) and Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs last month visited GateWay Community College (part of the Maricopa Community College District) to unveil the Arizona Home Energy Rebate Program. They were joined by Chancellor Steven Gonzales. (Photo: Maricopa Community Colleges)Ocean County College President Pamela Monaco welcomes guests to a ceremony to celebrate the reopening of the New Jersey college’s renovated library building. Enhancements included new study areas and collaboration spaces, upgraded technology, and updated services and resources. (Photo: OCC)Osvaldo Caballero (right), director of construction technologies at Lone Star College’s North Harris campus, tapped a faculty grant from the Texas college to explore educational partnerships for LSC’s electrical technology program in Australia, where he worked with Nicholas Patterson, director of future technologies at RMIT University. (Photo: LSC)Aviation maintenance students at Louisiana’s SOWELA Technical Community College pose inside a $75 million E-8A Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System aircraft donated to the college by the U.S. Air Force through the Louisiana State Agency for Surplus Property last fall. (Photo: SOWELA)
Matthew Dembicki edits Community College Daily and serves as associate vice president of communications for the American Association of Community Colleges.
