FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 21, 2025 Contact: Martha M. Parham, Ed.D. 202-728-0200 x209 mparham@aacc.nche.edu Community College Innovation Challenge invites community college students to create STEM solutions to real-world problems Washington, D.C. – Today, the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) in partnership with the National Science Foundation (NSF), has launched its platform to advance student […]
AACC, NSF Calls All Community College Student Innovators
Community College Minute, January 21, 2025
CEO to CEO Newsletter, Issue #274
January 17, 2024 | Issue # 274 I want to begin by wishing all of you a Happy New Year, and I hope the new semester has started off well. Our friends in Southern California are dealing with fear and uncertainty as the wildfires continue to burn. And even after the fires are fully extinguished, […]
Community College Minute, January 13, 2025
AACC Statement on the California Wildfires
As we watch from Washington, DC, the wildfires in Southern California continue to cause unprecedented devastation across the Southern California region. The community colleges and their students remain in our thoughts and prayers as Californians continue to face enormous loss. We commend the work of the heroic first responders and firefighters, many of whom began […]
Community College Voice Podcast: Season 9, Episode 7: Design Thinking at Joliet Junior College<
Season 9, Episode 7: Design Thinking at Joliet Junior College In this episode, we talk to Dr. Clyne G. H. Namuo, president of Joliet Junior College (JJC). Under Dr. Namuo, the college has adopted a Design Thinking approach to enhance strategic initiatives and solve problems.
DataPoints: Pell grants disbursements
The U.S. Education Department (ED) disbursed $31.47 billion in Pell grants to 6.53 million students in the 2023-24 academic year, based on preliminary year-end data. This represents a significant increase from the prior year, when $27.2 billion were awarded to 6.17 million students. The increase in dollars disbursed is due to a combination of factors. First, […]
Workforce Pell Implementation Update – Negotiated Rulemaking Webinar
AACC Members are invited to join president and CEO, Dr. DeRionne Pollard along with our government relations team for updates on the negotiated rulemaking process for implementation of the Workforce Pell Grant. The webinar will include a summary of the regulations under discussion and point to their possible provisions once they are implemented in final […]
DataPoints: Post-Covid grad, success rates
Community college completion rates and overall success rates (completion or transfer or still enrolled at the same institution) showed an increase in data recently released by the National Center of Education Statistics (NCES). The data represent the rate of first-time, full-time students who began their education at a public, non-baccalaureate degree-granting community college. Graduation (completion) includes students […]