Nurse credits federal training funds for her success
By CC Times, Published July 19, 2010
Rhonda Gage, 53, who transitioned from working as a medical assistant to becoming a registered nurse through programs at American River College (California), credits federal job training efforts for her success.

Labor Dept. awards final round of Community-Based Job Training Grants
By CC Times, Published July 1, 2010
The U.S. Department of Labor this week awarded $125 million in grants to 41 community colleges and organizations through the fifth and final round of Community-Based Job Training Grants.

Career-oriented degrees yield increased income
By CC Times, Published June 30, 2010
The Colorado Community College System recently conducted a comparison of the wages of students age 25 and older before they began their education at the system’s 13 colleges and upon leaving them to determine the effect of education on income.

Labor Department to open virtual health care center
By Matthew Dembicki, Published April 19, 2010
SEATTLE—The U.S. Department of Labor will soon launch a virtual one-stop center on health care that people can mine for available jobs, credential requirements, education and training providers and other information.

Community service reins among MetLife award winners
By CC Times, Published April 18, 2010
SEATTLE—Three colleges—Chaffey College in California, Clover Park Technical College in Washington, and Lewis and Clark Community College in Illinois—received the 2010 MetLife Foundation Community College Excellence Award, which biennially honors public two-year colleges' role in addressing education, social and economic needs and opportunities.

Summary of fall's national forum on nursing
By CC Times, Published April 15, 2010
A national committee examining nursing issues, including the education of nurses, has released a summary of its fall forum, which focused on acute care.

Partnerships help health care workers upgrade their skills
By Matthew Dembicki, Published March 4, 2010
The health care industry’s struggles to find enough properly trained nurses and allied health care workers are well known. But providing incumbent frontline workers in the field with opportunities to upgrade their skills and for career advancement needs more focus.

A week to focus on the health care workforce
By Matthew Dembicki, Published February 26, 2010
The high-profile federal health care summit may be over, but next week brings other meetings in Washington, D.C., that will focus on another aspect of the industry—its workforce. 

Colleges to receive part of $227 million for health care training
By CC Times, Published February 12, 2010
The U.S. departments of Health and Human Services and Labor today announced a total of nearly $1 billion in federal stimulus funds—including nearly $227 million to mostly community colleges—to help health care providers adapt health information technology and to train workers for the health care jobs.

Grant news digest
By CC Times, Published January 25, 2010
Grant news announcements for the week of Jan. 25, 2010.