Philanthropic and community initiatives give students the chance to gain credits along with invaluable experience. Here are three ideas institutions can adopt to encourage such efforts. More...

Community college enrollment is down nationwide. 
From an economist’s view, the explanation is simple: Readily available, well-paying jobs draw students of all ages away from colleges and into the workforce. More...

Columbia-Greene Community College, The College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF), and Rockland Community College—have each chosen to deploy Ellucian Banner enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. More...

When state dollars dry up, public universities often turn to donors. For the University of Michigan that has been a lucrative effort, with the school announcing last week that it raised $5 billion through the “Victors for Michigan” capital campaign launched in 2013. The university highlighted its record-breaking success, noting that — thanks to its 384,433 donors — Michigan it is the first public university to raise such an amount. More...

The Trump administration's recommendation last week to continue the federal approval of a controversial accreditor of for-profit colleges cited endorsements by peer accreditors that those organizations never made. More...

With a grant from a non-profit robotics manufacturing institute and some additional support from the state, several state community colleges will be launching a two-year apprenticeship program this spring in advanced robotics. More...

Fresno City College got a $1 million boost in state funding for its Career and Technical Education program. More...

JAGGAER, the world’s largest independent spend management company, today announces that Eastern Kentucky University (EKU) has selected JAGGAER’s complete Source to Pay and Spend Analytics solutions suite. EKU, a regional comprehensive university in Richmond, Kentucky, serving nearly 17,000 students, is JAGGAER’s first customer in Kentucky. More...

The U.S. Education Department (ED) this week launched its first mobile app to apply for federal student aid. More...

A Georgia women’s college apologized after students got an email last week that used some crude language to promote a breast cancer awareness festival. More...