Grand Rapids Community College (GRCC) embraces the life-changing role it will play educating students through the Grand Rapids Promise Zone, and is proud to be a partner in these efforts to strengthen the region for generations to come, GRCC President Bill Pink said. Pink spoke at a Jan. 13 event with Mayor Rosalynn Bliss; Teresa […]
Advocacy and Funding Articles
TAACCCT as a model for future workforce efforts
During a House subcommittee hearing Dec. 18 on how Congress can address worker displacement by expanding access to lifelong learning, a former top-level U.S. Labor Department official noted that the TAACCCT program has provided a structure that can help workers and employers. Seth Harris, who served as U.S. deputy labor secretary and its chief operating […]
HPOG creates a path out of poverty
Ana Karen Lopez – the oldest of seven children in a family that immigrated from Mexico to Texas – dreamed of becoming a nurse but couldn’t afford a college education without extensive financial assistance. Thanks to a federal HPOG grant, Lopez was able to quit her dead-end receptionist job and enroll full-time in a licensed […]
Report roundup
Here are three reports you should know about this month. State disinvestment in public higher education has led to fewer affordable college opportunities, particularly for low-income and underrepresented students, say the authors of a report from The Institute for College Access and Success (TICAS). The report proposes a framework for a new federal-state partnership that […]
Enrollment and age
The new school year is just beginning, but community college presidents are closely watching enrollment numbers. Since hitting a peak in 2010, the total community college enrollment has decreased each fall after the Great Recession, declining by more than 1 million students nationally between 2010 and 2017. However, when looking at those who do enroll […]
An opportunity to succeed
This spring, Paola Arias-Batista became one of the first Passaic County Community College (PCCC) students to receive the New Jersey Community College Opportunity Grant (CCOG), a pilot program that enabled qualifying students to attend classes tuition free. “I was so happy to receive this,” said Arias-Batista, who struggled to pay for her own education by […]
Advancing technician education through mentoring
For community colleges looking to start or improve technician education programs there’s good news: You don’t have to do it alone. The American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) recently announced a national grant competition for the MentorLinks: Advancing Technological Education program, developed with the support of the National Science Foundation (NSF). Through MentorLinks, colleges get […]
Try and try and try again
During a House hearing last week on college costs, it was the testimony of a community college graduate who summed up the challenges that many two-year college students face, as well as the college services available to help them cross such hurdles. Sitting on a panel before the House Education and Labor Committee that included […]
Stronger bonds and new services
Over three intense days during Mentor-Connect’s 2019 Technical Assistance and Grant Writing Workshop, faculty, administrators and grant writers on teams from 22 community colleges began as strangers — sometimes people from the same campus who barely knew each other prior — and emerged as colleagues who cheered for each others’ elevator speeches and divided the […]
Comment on Title IX proposed regulations
In November, the U.S. Department of Education announced proposed regulations governing how institutions must treat allegations of sexual harassment to be in compliance with Title IX. Now, education leaders can comment on that proposal. ED has issued a formal Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM). The American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) will file a formal […]