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Spokane Chiefs and SCC team up for players’ education

Two days a week, Regan Wiles heads to training with the Spokane Chiefs hockey team. He walks past the ice rink, goes into a makeshift classroom and settles in for his English 101 class with Spokane Community College (SCC). It is his fourth year with the team, and this is the first year that the class has […]

Increasing access to mental health support

CT State Community College (CT State) in February announced that it will hire seven additional mental health and wellness counselors and develop new programs as part of a plan to provide greater access to on-site counseling and wellness services at its 12 community colleges. The expansion comes after receiving feedback from students and a recent […]

Building social justice degree programs

In fall 2022, New Jersey’s Camden County College and Hudson County Community College (HCCC) launched social justice degree programs. With no template to work from, the colleges had to figure out how to effectively and efficiently build their own programs. Staff and faculty from the two colleges spoke about designing the new programs this week […]

New alliance gives students new opportunities

Six Maryland community colleges have joined forces to form the Maryland Education Alliance (MEA) to further boost students’ opportunities to earn associate degrees or certificates in the health care disciplines across the state. The MEA is an innovative collaboration that creates a clear, seamless pathway for students to move from one community college to another […]

‘Nursing Flex’ caters to working nurses

Jessica Barnes loves her job as a registered nurse at the Joseph Maxwell Cleland Atlanta VA Medical Center in Decatur, Georgia. The 2021 Associate Degree Nursing Flex graduate says Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College (OCtech) prepared her well for working in the center’s fast-paced emergency room. “Being an RN is a lot of responsibility, but it’s also […]

Student story: Reconnecting with a childhood dream

For Shamarri Key, cooking is love. “I can vividly remember cooking with my family, all of us laughing and joking together,” said Key, a 27-year-old enrolled in Grand Rapids Community College’s (GRCC’s) culinary arts program. “I felt the overall presence of passion and perseverance that gave me the enthusiasm to thrive for a bigger purpose.” […]

Transformational Justice programs offer new paths

“Honestly, I’m really nervous,” 24-year-old Mark would repeat numerous times as he told his story. In the end, it was his captive audience of almost 70 people who would be in shivers. His story was powerful. “Growing up, I was taught to go to school and stay focused, but I faced a lot of challenges,” […]

Report roundup

Here are three reports to know about this month: 1. Undergraduate enrollments seem to have stabilized this fall — including at community colleges — and there’s been an uptick among freshmen, with public two-year colleges seeing the biggest bump, according to final fall enrollment data from the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) Research Center. In fall […]

A source of knowledge and inspiration

When Douglas B. Hamm applied to MentorLinks, he hoped it would improve Lakeshore Technical College (LTC) faculty and staff members’ understanding of National Science Foundation (NSF) resources and lead to better connections with the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC). Since its first MentorLinks meeting in October 2019, the Wisconsin college has: Grown College Here […]

Student story: Third time’s the charm

“I can’t do this; it’s not for me.” These were the words that Goldie Whaley uttered to herself not once but twice while attempting college. Whaley graduated from Cleveland High School in 2011 and enrolled at Cleveland State Community College that fall. After a hard class, she was discouraged and dropped out. In 2016, she […]