The six community college teams in the 2024-2026 MentorLinks cohort met their mentors in October in Washington, D.C., and quickly fell into discussions about the details of their plans for improving a STEM technician education…
The seven community colleges in the 2023-2025 MentorLinks cohort are all maximizing the American Association of Community College program’s connections to the Advanced Technological Education (ATE) community to enhance their technician education initiatives. New York’s…
More than two-thirds of students enrolled in public community colleges in fall 2022 were enrolled less than full-time. This is the first of two DataPoints that describe part-time student enrollments in community colleges, as reported…
On the evening of September 26, Hurricane Helene was barreling toward Western North Carolina. Our Blue Ridge Community College campuses were uncharacteristically dark and, to be frank, no one expected what our entire region was…
Skeptics of community college baccalaureate (CCB) degrees have a long list of worries, but the claim that graduates won’t get good jobs is out of step with our research. As Elizabeth Meza, a lead researcher…
National college completion rates are up after years of stalled progress.
Community college leaders know the value of partnerships. They regularly forge strong relationships with local businesses and nonprofit organizations to support the needs of their communities. But help doesn’t just exist locally. It also resides…
Have you noticed an increase in higher education administrative positions focused on innovation and strategy? In the past few years, there has been significant job growth in these types of roles in higher education —…
Staffers for the House and Senate education committees have announced that months of negotiations have produced an agreement on legislation to reauthorize the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA). Staff members for the House Committee…
As a growing number of Americans question the value of traditional higher education, they’re searching for other meaningful paths to gain the knowledge and skills that can propel them up the economic ladder. Last year,…