Athletics have restarted at many community colleges since pausing last year due to the pandemic. While there’s been a focus on the return of football, basketball and baseball, some lesser-celebrated sports are growing. Bowling, cross country, esports and swimming and diving are becoming more popular, partly because they’re fairly pandemic-proof, says National Junior College Athletic […]
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Supporting rising researchers
Since April 2000, El Paso Community College (EPCC) has provided students with paid research experiences and supplemental instruction to prepare them for biomedical research careers through the RISE Bridge Program. The grant-funded Rise to the Challenge Bridge Program expands on the RISE program, but still provides the same benefits for students – and for their […]
Report roundup
Here are three reports to check out this month. Far fewer college students transferred to other institutions over the past year mainly a result of declining college enrollments, and community college students again saw the biggest drops, according to a report from the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) Research Center. Overall transfer enrollment is down -7.9% […]
Bringing the engineering classroom to students’ homes
Sometimes adversity breeds innovation. That’s exactly what the Electronic Engineering Technology Program (EET) at Portland Community College (PCC) did in 2020 when classes were forced to go online as a result of the pandemic. As the entire college shifted learning to remote and online platforms, the program didn’t stay idle and hope its students would […]
Advancing education, reducing recidivism
Wisconsin’s Lakeshore Technical College will play a key role in a pilot program to educate inmates. Reducing the chance of former inmates becoming incarcerated again is the goal of the program launching in Manitowoc and Sheboygan counties. Lakeshore is part of a consortium with Bay Area Workforce Development and Great Lakes Training and Development. The […]
Rocket speed to a new career
When Chris Mariner decided it was time to start a new career, he was scared. “I was unhappy with the work, but it was my family’s main source of income,” says Mariner, who lives in Elyria, Ohio. “And I had grown quite comfortable with the job and the lifestyle it was able to provide.” But […]
Commentary: Early college can help drive student success
Higher education is at a precipice. The last several years have been marked by enrollment declines, the result of a demographic shift. The arrival of the pandemic last year, however, has brought with it a dramatic decline in enrollments for students of color. One effective strategy that has been successful in both increasing enrollment and […]
Report roundup
Here are three reports to check out this month. Dramatic enrollment declines at community colleges are continuing, especially among students of color and males, according to preliminary data collected by the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) Research Center. Six weeks into the spring semester, community colleges reported a -9.5% drop in enrollments compared to pre-pandemic spring […]
High-touch, high success
In 2018, The University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill and Southwestern Community College (SCC) partnered to increase the number of students transferring to and graduating from UNC-Chapel Hill. The Carolina Student Transfer Excellence Program (C-STEP) is designed to guarantee admission to the university from community colleges around the state. Two SCC students, Puja […]
Recognizing open education
This is Open Education Week, an annual global event to raise awareness of free and open sharing in education – particularly, open educational resources (OER). Tennessee’s colleges and universities are recognizing the week by launching Tennessee Open Education, a statewide higher education collaboration that “crystallizes all the great work already underway across the state to […]