Ind. colleges to help craft skills system
By CC Times, Published August 30, 2010
The Manufacturing Institute has partnered with Indiana’s public two-year and four-year higher education systems to better align college education programs with industry-recognized skills credentials for careers in advanced manufacturing.

Program recruiters help boost enrollments, retention
By Madeline Patton, Published July 30, 2010
ORLANDO, Fla. — Hiring a part-time recruiter to shepherd new students into electronics programs at Indian River State College (Florida) and Central Carolina Community College (North Carolina) has helped both programs substantially improve student enrollment and retention.

Colleges tackle training for growing health IT field
By Garry Boulard, Published July 30, 2010
Despite the fact that she has worked as an information technology analyst for some 15 years, when Soussan Ahmadi found herself unemployed last year, she realized that she needed to dramatically expand her technological expertise—and no field looked as promising as health information technology.

Six colleges named national academic centers in information assurance
By CC Times, Published July 13, 2010
Six community colleges are the first two-year higher education institutions to be named National Centers of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance by the National Security Agency and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Fla. colleges add more 4-year degrees
By Miami Herald, Published July 6, 2010
Two Florida community colleges are set to add new four-year degree programs.

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.

New programs at community colleges
By CC Times, Published June 24, 2010
New programs at community colleges in Alabama, Michigan and New York.

A call to streamline community college training programs
By Matthew Dembicki, Published June 18, 2010
Community colleges can likely better serve displaced workers by offering prescribed curricula, creating block schedules and moving students through training programs in cohorts, according to presidents of a major education foundation and an organization that focuses on increasing college completion rates.

Intern key to building project's greening, cost cutting
By CC Times, Published May 18, 2010
With the help of St. Louis Community College and Kwame Building Group, architecture technology student Steven Vollenweider likes what he sees in his future.