Texas legislators will evaluate the state’s community college funding model beginning this year. Currently, Texas has sixty-three community colleges, which enroll nearly half of the…
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I ran across a discussion today that I haven’t seen for a while: how to grow community college enrollment. Nationally, enrollment in two-year schools is…
New data released this month by the National Student Clearinghouse shows that the six-year graduation rate for community college students inched up slightly. The six-year…
There’s a growing demand for short-term training programs, mostly by employers who cannot find workers. But significant questions remain about the value of the rapid-training…
There’s been much hand-wringing lately about the large drop in community college enrollment. Researchers, community college administrators and politicians are trying figure out how to…
Amazon announced last month that it would invest $3M in community colleges across Washington State to deliver computer science instruction. The programs will award bachelor’s…
Yesterday, I wrote about the potential dangers of viewing community college academic programs as profit centers. A community does not fund a college to make…
Last November, the administration at Everett Community College in Everett, WA announced that it would close the on-campus daycare center. Currently, the center provides high…
Last month, Ohio governor Mike DeWine announced Intel’s commitment to build a new computer chip manufacturing facility near Columbus. The state offered nearly $2B in…
Is the US economy overheating? Yesterday, the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise at UNC-Chapel Hill published a discussion between its Executive Director and its Chief…