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Climate Week NYC Event Highlights Key Role of Community Colleges in Developing a Green Economy

  • September 27, 2024
  • By Shayleah Jenkins
How can community and technical colleges adapt their practices to prepare the workforce for a shift toward sustainable energy? An event brought together higher education researchers and community college workforce leaders to address this question.

The Great Alignment? College and Student Responses to Virginia’s Workforce-Focused Free-College Initiative

  • September 16, 2024
  • By Multiple authors
Image of healthcare workers in class.
This blog post shares takeaways from a working paper on how institutions and students responded to free-college messaging from Virginia's Get a Skill, Get a Job, Get Ahead (G3) initiative.

Debunking the “13th Grade” Stigma: The True Challenges Facing Community College Students

  • August 28, 2024
  • By Lauren Lawler
What factors might cause community college students to pause their studies? And what motivates them to return? Summer intern Lauren Lawler explores these questions and reflects on her personal experience as a community college student.

How Many Students Are Taking Dual Enrollment Courses In High School? New National, State, and College-Level Data

  • August 26, 2024
  • By John Fink
Last week, the U.S. Department of Education released new data that, for the first time ever, provide college-level counts of the number of high school dual enrollment students, disaggregated by race/ethnicity and gender. John Fink details a first look at this new information, which represents years of effort among dozens of organizations pushing for better dual enrollment data.

The Present and Possible Future of the FAFSA

  • August 22, 2024
  • By Deenika Oladipo
In this blog post, summer intern Deenika Oladipo writes about the rollout of the simplified FAFSA form, how it was received by students and administrators, and what students can expect this year when filing for FAFSA.
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