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Community College Month: Adaptation, Access, and the Future of Workforce Education

April 23, 2026

April is Community College Month—a fitting moment to celebrate the fact that community colleges are sitting in the sweetest of sweet spots these days! While higher education is navigating a period of significant change, creating a destabilizing environment for four-year colleges and universities, the community colleges, long the sad orphan child from the wrong side of the ivory tower, are…

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in Celebrations, Community, Community college, Equity, higher education, Inspiration, Students

Resilience in Action: How Community Colleges Thrive Amid Uncertainty

January 6, 2026

As we welcome 2026, we leave behind a year of challenge and hopefully move into calmer waters, although “waters” of any sort are still slightly churning at the Department of Education. Reflecting on our woes and triumphs over the past 12 months, I feel more hopeful this year than I did last year at this time. For all of the…

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in Community, Community college, Fundraising, higher education, Leadership, Students, Uncategorized

Every One of Us Counts: Standing Strong Through the Shutdown

November 10, 2025

As we make our way through the longest government shutdown we have yet experienced, we in the community college world occupy an unwelcome front row seat as direct witness to the impact on many of our students and employees. Roughly 85 percent of all community college students come from economically challenged areas; thus their lives are often financially challenged. While…

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in Community, Community college, higher education, Jobs, Leadership

Women’s History Month: A Legacy of Leadership

March 14, 2025

Institutions across the nation celebrate Women’s History Month by honoring generations of women who refused to accept barriers, led with courage and dedicated their careers to improving their world. And they did all of this while working to inspire and prepare those who would come after. This is a saga that is definitely true for those of us in higher…

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