Last week, the Barton Community College (Great Bend, KS) Board of Trustees voted to terminate the school’s automotive program. The Trustees cited declining enrollment, high…
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Last month, the Illinois Board of Higher Education and the Illinois Community College Board both issued COVID-19 recommendations. Higher education institutions in Illinois should require…
Two years ago today the WCC community said goodbye to the College’s in-house IT staff. The current WCC administration outsourced the entire Information Technology staff.…
It doesn’t take long for the pandemic to change everything. Just a week after saying that fully vaccinated individuals could go maskless in higher education…
Ivy Tech Community College announced a new partnership with the United Methodist Youth Home. The agreement enables residents of the UMYH to work on their…
According to the US Department of Justice, about 650,000 people complete prison sentences and leave custody every year. Within three years, however, about two-thirds of…
County College of Morris (New Jersey) has a lot to be proud of. It recently ranked in the top 2% of community colleges in the…
Community colleges are doing more than forgiving student debt in their efforts to boost their fall enrollment. They’re using federal assistance to pay for incentives…
A number of community colleges have used federal relief funds to erase student debt. This approach makes sense for both the community college and the…
The past two weeks have delivered an urgent message: the pandemic is not over. In 48 of 50 states, the seven-day-average of new COVID-19 cases…