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Section: Institutions > Community Colleges
Community Colleges
Community College Leaders Strategize Solutions to Student Success Barriers
As the challenges—enrollment, limited technology access, food and housing insecurities—persist from the COVID-19 pandemic, community colleges are seeking solutions. The virtual Innovations Conference, hosted by the League for Innovation in the Community College this week, is providing a space for community college leaders to collaborate and problem solve strategies to promote student success.
March 2, 2021
Community Colleges
Louisiana Health Provider Teams With Community College to Address Nurse Shortage
Louisiana health care provider Ochsner Health has committed $20 million to the nursing program at Delgado Community College in New Orleans. The announcement comes as the Louisiana State Board of Nursing forecasts a significant shortage of nurses across the state over the next several years. “With the country facing a critical shortage of trained healthcare […]
March 1, 2021
Community Colleges
Community Colleges Face Declining Enrollment Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
National community college enrollment has fallen 10% from fall 2019 to fall 2020, according to the National Student Clearinghouse, the Associated Press reported. The COVID-19 pandemic hit older adult students hard, with many losing their jobs or saddled with more time-consuming, at-home responsibilities due to the shift to online classes for children. And given that […]
February 22, 2021
Community Colleges
Lord Fairfax Community College Seeks New Name, Removing Former Slave Owner Namesake
Lord Fairfax Community College’s board has voted 9-3 on to change the school’s name from that of an 18th-century slave owner, The Northern Virginia Daily reported. The school’s namesake was Thomas, the 6th Lord Fairfax, with the name being selected in 1969 by the school’s first board. Fairfax owned more than 5 million acres of […]
February 17, 2021
Community Colleges
Five New Mexico Colleges Plan to Establish Joint Service System
After examining their administrative processes, Central New Mexico Community College, Santa Fe Community College, Clovis Community College, Northern New Mexico College and San Juan College collaborated to establish a common platform for student and financial services.
February 15, 2021
Community Colleges
Harrisburg Area Community College Faculty Rally to Unionize
A few dozen Harrisburg Area Community College faculty members gathered near campus to rally for a union on Saturday, PennLive reported. The institution has 700 faculty members in total, including full-time and adjunct professors. Faculty voted in December 2020 on behalf of unionization and are now represented by the Pennsylvania State Education Association. Professors involved […]
February 15, 2021
Community Colleges
Ozarks Technical Community College Appoints First Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Daniel Ogunyemi has been appointed Ozarks Technical Community College’s (OTC) first director of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). According to census data, 8% of residents in OTC’s 12-county service region are non-white. Yet, non-White enrollment in the school system is 18%. One of Ogunyemi’s first goals is to listen. “I want to listen to anybody willing […]
February 12, 2021
Community Colleges
Legislative Summit Analyzes Policies to Support Community Colleges
The pandemic’s impact on rural community colleges was discussed during the three-day virtual 2021 National Legislative Summit hosted this week by the Association of Community College Trustees and the American Association of Community Colleges.
February 10, 2021
African-American
Declines in Community College Enrollment Among Blacks Will Have Long-Term Consequences
Community colleges throughout the U.S. have experienced dramatic decreases in enrollment among students of color since the pandemic began.
February 8, 2021
Community Colleges
Virtual Panel Explores Findings from Community College Student Engagement Report
Sixty-nine percent of entering students work for pay, while almost one-third work more than 40 hours a week, found a Center for Community College Student Engagement (CCCSE) report, titled “The Intersection of Work and Learning: Findings From Entering Students in Community Colleges,” last October. Just how to provide support to those student-workers was the topic of a CCCSE virtual panel discussion on Feb. 3.
February 3, 2021
Community Colleges
Dr. Adrienne Grayson Transitions Her Equity Work Into the Community College Sphere
Dr. Adrienne Grayson entered the field of higher education with a goal of helping students have a positive college experience. Her interest in student affairs stemmed from being an Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) tutor and holding several related jobs during her undergraduate years at the University of California, Irvine (UCI).
January 19, 2021
Community Colleges
Dr. DeAnna R. Burt-Nanna Selected as President of Monroe Community College
Dr. DeAnna R. Burt-Nanna, who was recently appointed president of Monroe Community College (MCC), has always found education to be “inherit” in her genes.
January 5, 2021
Community Colleges
Flat is the New Up: How the Year of Covid-19 Continues to Reinvent Higher Ed
Along with its persisting global presence and its surging number of victims, COVID-19 has conjured numerous challenges due to its unprecedented nature. Whether we see the vast changes around us as positive or not, we need to adapt to stay in the performance race. Higher education is facing some critical demands, and it might be useful to summarize some gripping ones, along with the ways we’re collectively addressing them.
January 5, 2021
Community Colleges
Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Carbon Community College Receives $1M From Late Professor Emeritus
A beloved Lehigh Carbon Community College (LCCC) professor who died this year has left nearly $1 million for the college to use as scholarships for students in technology. Clifford F. Miller, who joined LCCC to teach mechanical technology in 1968, was among the first professors at the Pennsylvania college founded just two years prior. Miller […]
December 21, 2020
Community Colleges
What a Biden Administration Could Mean for Community Colleges
With President-elect Joe Biden preparing to take office in January, this might be community colleges’ big moment. The institutions’ advocates are already celebrating what a Joe Biden presidency could mean for the community college sector.
December 16, 2020
Community Colleges
Community Colleges Must Move Beyond Opportunity, Focus on Success
While we know that hard work and persistence are essential to success, we also know that opportunity and access are the true keys to student persistence and achievement. The modern community college was established in all states following passage of the GI Bill, which resulted in hundreds of thousands of vets entering American higher education […]
December 16, 2020
Community Colleges
Op-ed Urging Jill Biden to Drop ‘Dr.’ Honorific Sparks Heated Critiques of Sexism and Elitism
A Friday Wall Street Journal op-ed asking soon-to-be First Lady Dr. Jill Biden to drop the honorific denoting her Ed.D. has inspired heated criticism from many academics who are calling it sexist, classist and elitist.
December 14, 2020
Community Colleges
South Puget Sound Community College Receives Historic Gift of $2.5M
South Puget Sound Community College has received $2.5 million — the largest gift in its history — from the Bruno and Evelyne Betti Foundation. The donation will benefit the college’s professional technical degree programs, which include automotive and welding trades, as well as health care programs in the college’s Dr. Angela Bowen Center for Health […]
December 11, 2020
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