Yesterday, I wrote about the trend of community colleges losing occupational education faculty to other institutions and the private sector. In some cases, the faculty’s…
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Community colleges have suffered enough in the last decade, but it seems they now must navigate shrinking staff levels, too. I have written about this…
Earlier this week, Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, IA released the results of a community college hiring survey of local employers. The Skills 2024…
Yesterday, the University of California Irvine announced that a UCI researcher received $3.6M to study the effectiveness of community college programs. The research will focus…
In the past several years, there’s been a lot of hand wringing about the state of community college enrollment. Somewhat ironically, it’s being done by…
A new report authored by the American Association of Community Colleges and Harvard Business School shows a growing disagreement between employers and two-year colleges regarding…
And there it is. While everyone’s wringing their hands about community college enrollment and dreaming up ways to make community college attendance even cheaper, the…
Some interesting research from the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston suggests that non-college-educated men leave the workforce when their incomes decline relative to those of…
Community college administrators have been content with the knowledge that their classrooms fill when the economy tanks. Sadly, nothing is as simple as it looks.…
Earlier this year, the Brookings Institution published an in-depth study of economic mobility characteristics among socioeconomically disadvantaged young people. In it, researchers used data to…