Editor’s Note: This is the second article in a two-part series about successful programs expanding in The City University of New York community college system. A LaGuardia Community College program that provides education and teaches parenting skills to young fathers ages 18 to 24 is doubling in size and expanding to two other City University […]

Student athletes at McLennan Community College (MCC), in Waco, Texas, regularly earn National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Academic Team honors. On nine occasions, MCC’s teams have won the NJCAA Academic Team of the Year, a distinction reserved for the team with the highest GPA in the sport. Women’s and men’s golf have been have […]

The IT department at Laramie County Community College (LCCC), in Wyoming, exhibits all the qualities of a great piece of technology: innovation, collaboration and flexibility. But those features are only part of the reason the Center for Digital Education has named this college the No. 1 Tech-Savvy Community College for midsized community colleges four times. […]

Campus security is in the national spotlight again, following the Oct. 1 mass shooting at Umpqua Community College, in Oregon. And while there is no “one size fits all” solution to keeping community colleges safe, the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators (IACLEA) has issued some advice that can help. Community colleges should have […]

The Halifax Community College (HCC) Child Care Center, a nonprofit organization licensed by the state of North Carolina, holds a five-star rating, the highest rating awarded by the state. The center has received national program accreditation from the National Association for the Education of Young Children, making it the only center in Halifax and its […]

In 1989, HACC, Central Pennsylvania’s Community College, was sending distance-education courses on videocassettes through the mail. Today, the college’s virtual credits are the second-largest amount of credit delivery across all five campuses in the college’s 10-county service region. In addition to for-credit courses, HACC offers free, noncredit iTunes U courses that are open to the […]

As a neighbor of Naval Station Norfolk — the world’s largest naval facility — Tidewater Community College has a long tradition of serving military members, veterans and their families. Nearly a third of the college’s students are connected with the military in some way. The link between Tidewater and the military community became even stronger […]

The following is an excerpt from the Community College Daily. Community colleges throughout the nation are taking steps to ensure Hispanics gain access to and succeed in higher education – through outreach, mentoring, early college programs and other initiatives. Many of these efforts are highlighted in the new report “Bright Spots in Hispanic Education National Online Catalog” from […]

At a time when using public funding to provide a college education to prisoners can spark a heated debate, California is expanding its prisoner education programs with a new pilot project, in which four community colleges will provide on-site instruction to inmates. Until now, the state’s prisoners have had to enroll in correspondence courses to […]

On September 11, 2001, the Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC) lost the ability to communicate. Classes were suspended for three weeks, and the college conducted business on cellphones for the next two months. In 2003, the college was forced off the grid because of a power failure that affected most of the Northeast. In […]