Teaching & Learning 

10/9/2012 - Research has identified several practices that four-year colleges and universities can use to improve the experiences and successes of transfer students.

10/2/2012 - A first-of-its-kind, statewide public awareness campaign that is encouraging and supporting students to earn an associate degree is set to kick off this week in New York.

10/1/2012 - The Mentor-Connect project provide mentors, faculty development, and resources for community colleges on the NSF's Advanced Technological Education program.

9/28/2012 - Video introduction to the Voluntary Framework of Accountabiliity program.

9/24/2012 - Facing a capacity crunch, community colleges are looking to innovate, reassess their core strategies and revamp their programs while they continue to meet one of their most basic missions.

9/20/2012 - Locally and across the nation, community colleges are reporting significant drops in the number of students signing up for classes this fall.

9/19/2012 - Colleges are grappling with the dilemma of providing 21st-century education and job training in aging classrooms, laboratories and lecture halls with dwindling public funding to pay for upgrades.

9/18/2012 - To date, 75 community colleges across the country are using the 21st-Century report for college-wide activities such professional development and re-examining goals.

9/18/2012 - To fulfill a shared goal to prepare a robust nursing workforce, five national organizations sign a statement of support of academic progression for nursing students and graduates.

9/11/2012 - The U.S. Department of Education has just released preliminary Pell Grant program data for the award year 2011-12.

9/11/2012 - Pottstown Mercury editorial about the value of a community college education.

9/10/2012 - About two-thirds of the 1,200 U.S. community colleges offer service learning in their curricular programs.

9/7/2012 - In 2010, 9.6 million students benefited from Pell grants. That’s a drastic increase from Pell’s first year, when 176,000 students received the grants.

9/6/2012 - The Aspen Institute has announced the 10 finalists for the Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence.

8/29/2012 - The 21st-Century Initiative implementation teams will meet and forward strategies to a steering committee, which will then present a final report.

8/27/2012 - Community colleges are using strategies such as automatic graduation, reverse transfers and guaranteed admissions to universities to improve their completion rates.

8/23/2012 - The Community College Times reports a new federal policy could lead to increased enrollment of undocumented students.

8/20/2012 - Community College Times article: with state funding in dire straits, Las Positas College in California is looking toward sponsorships of courses.

8/8/2012 - AACC will have a plan for implementation of the 21st-Century report recommendations by summer 2014.

8/6/2012 - Two free webinars on college completion and unplanned pregnancy prevention.

7/31/2012 - A Chinese journalist has spent several months in Sanford, N.C., learning about Americans, American culture and especially American community colleges.

7/25/2012 - Some universities are reaching beyond state borders to help students earn a bachelor’s degree.

7/13/2012 - AACC's MentorLinks program is featured in The Atlantic magazine.

7/11/2012 - Community College Times article on how performance-based incentives are being used by community colleges.

6/29/2012 - The Kresge Foundation has awarded a grant to AACC to help implement the recommendations of the 21st-Century Commission to revamp community colleges.

6/26/2012 - PBS news story focuses on community colleges struggling with trying to help students at all learning levels.

6/15/2012 - The Department of Education has made available college affordability and transparency lists that were mandated by the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008.

6/7/2012 - AACC commends new report on college certificates released by Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce.

6/4/2012 - Announcement on webinars about Federal guidelines for educational institutions serving veterans and service members.

6/1/2012 - An article in Community College Times discusses mobile technologies and their impact in the classroom.

5/24/2012 - Community colleges were featured in the magazine of the American Society for Engineering Education.