The American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) is among 19 higher education organizations endorsing a national effort to make it easier for students to receive credit for learning they have ...

Community colleges have built our identity around one word: access. It’s in our mission statements, our marketing, our grant applications. We talk about open doors, removing barriers, meeting students ...

“Without stable shelter, everything else falls apart,” Princeton University sociology professor Matthew Desmond wrote in his Pulitzer Prize-winning book “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American ...

As community colleges nationwide grapple with enrollment shifts, rising costs and staffing challenges, six New Mexico institutions are demonstrating how collaboration can improve efficiency while ...

Community college leaders should pay attention to something that happened in the youth labor market this summer. After a quarter-century decline, summer employment of 16- to 19-year-olds ticked up to ...

Community colleges aim to connect the education they offer to work. Now the workplace itself is a major site of learning. That creates an opportunity and a challenge for community colleges. Artificial ...

It is the week before graduation, and students at Community College of Philadelphia (CCP) are lined up at the Grad Fair waiting to pick up their caps and gowns. They put on the regalia, head outside, ...

Seminole State College of Florida will receive $10 million in state funding to use toward a new Workforce, Science and Technology Center at the college’s healthcare-focused Altamonte Springs Campus, ...

Skilled trade solution from corporate America? The Job “Community colleges are at the center of what we’re doing,” says Mike Berman, director of economic and workforce development at Amazon Web ...

A Michigan task force is recommending a major shift in how the state finances dual enrollment, urging lawmakers to create a dedicated reimbursement system that would remove much of the financial ...

An open letter to the President of the United States, members of Congress, the U.S. Secretary of Education, all 50 state governors, state legislators, state education secretaries and commissioners, et ...

The higher education community didn’t find much to celebrate in Congress’s passage of the “big beautiful bill,” with one notable exception: the expansion of Pell grants to shorter-form workforce ...