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Going Big
President Biden’s ambitious American Families Plan is welcome news for leaders of community colleges and minority-serving institutions.
Opinion
Colleges Are Sabotaging Black and Brown Students
Institutional policies keep minority students underrepresented in the technical fields that would help them most after graduation, Ryan Craig writes.
Steep Enrollment Declines This Spring
If campus leaders thought fall 2020 enrollment declines were bad, spring's enrollment drops are even worse, especially for community colleges.
Seeking Better Data in Hopes of Better Outcomes
Community college leaders say they want to prioritize gathering data on the well-being of students, but efforts to ramp up student needs data are decentralized and underresourced, according to a new report.
Opinion
We Must End Either-Or Thinking About Skills
When it comes to building a better learning system, such a perspective presents a false choice that will intensify rather than diminish economic and social inequity, writes Debra Humphreys.
Lawmakers Asked to Consider Funding for Apprenticeships at 2-Year Colleges
President Biden's proposed $12 billion in funding for community colleges could go, in part, to help institutions build degree-based apprenticeship programs.
Opinion
An Infrastructure for Our Nation’s Talent
Allowing learners to use the Pell Grant for short-term programs could build a different kind of bridge -- one that links training, education and employment, argue Jamie Merisotis and Julie Peller.
Opinion
Letting Employers Off the Hook
Rather than expanding opportunities, opening up Pell Grants to short-term job training could put workers at greater risk, argue Daniel Bustillo and Amy Laitinen.