In an era where the cost of higher education continues to rise, community colleges remain a critical gateway to opportunity for millions of students. These institutions provide affordable, accessible and high-quality education, enabling students from…
Across the nation, Hispanic and Latinx Heritage Month celebrates the contributions of Hispanics in the United States, highlighting our rich cultural history, traditions and growing influence on our nation’s multicultural identity. Since its inception, the…
The U.S. Education Department on late Friday announced that it will extend to January 15 the deadline for institutions to provide a battery of information on their Title IV students under “financial value transparency” (FVT)…
A bipartisan group of 20 senators sent a letter this week to the U.S. Education Department (ED) asking to delay the institutional reporting deadline for gainful employment (GE) and financial value transparency (FVT) to July…
Much of the prior research on improving transfer focuses on structures and constraints at community colleges. Yet, powerful university actors shape the infrastructure (such as information and transfer agreements) and the processes (for example, recruitment,…
Adding to a stream of judicial decisions that directly affect community colleges and their students, U.S. Supreme Court last week declined to lift an injunction against implementing the Biden administration’s Saving on a Valuable Education…
A report on online learning based on responses from chief learning officers released last month found that a large majority of respondents (roughly three-quarters of the 324 leaders surveyed) have seen increasing demand for online…
K-12 teacher shortages across the country continue to worry parents, politicians, policymakers and other stakeholders. Although it is a problem that requires a multi-pronged approach, public community and technical colleges can provide an affordable education…
Many people assume that campaigns are won by registering students to vote, doing text banking and creating effective media. All true! But before a single neighborhood walk is organized, your college needs an effective, easy-to-understand…
The American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) has filed comments to the U.S. Education Department (ED) on behalf of the community college sector pertaining to a July 24 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) on distance…