Content tagged with “Community College”
College Excellence Program Director Josh Wyner explains the criteria for selecting the Aspen Prize finalists.Community colleges remain at the center of a national dialogue about workforce...
Tags: Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence, Community College With massive open online courses—or MOOCs—and other forms of technology-driven instruction taking center stage, national and state-level conversations about higher education seem to be paying less...
Tags: Higher Education, College Excellence, Student Success, Community College There is a great deal of attention in the anti-poverty field around the idea that performance management can be successfully adapted from business and human resource fields, and used to improve...
Tags: Aspen Roundtable for Community Change, low-income, Community College In last night's debate between President Obama and Governor Romney, both candidates agreed that community colleges working closely with businesses play a key role in creating jobs. Some questions...
Tags: Election 2012, Community College, Skills for America's Future This blog post was originally published as an op-ed in Inside Higher Ed on September 6, 2012. To see the original article, please click here. In the spotlight more than ever before,...
Tags: Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence, Community College, Adult Education No doubt, students must take personal responsibility to succeed in college. How hard students work often defines which ones acquire the knowledge needed to complete classes and earn a degree...
Tags: Workforce Development, Adult Education, Community College, Graduation Rates For more than 60 years, the US has demonstrated its commitment to expanding access to college. As a result of the GI Bill, Pell Grants, and other federal and state initiatives, an astonishing...
Tags: Adult Education, Community College, Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence This blog post was originally published as a guest submission in the Washington Post on May 11 2012. To see the original article, please click here. Graduation exercises at Anacostia High School...
Tags: Workforce Development, Adult Education, Community College, Graduation Rates Skills training, community colleges, entrepreneurship, and civility were a few of the key issues President Obama spoke about in his State of the Union address last night. We asked some of our experts...
Tags: Education, Homeland Security, Entrepreneurship, Adult Education, Energy, Community College, Savings, State of the Union, Skills-building, civility For millions of Americans, community colleges provide an essential pathway to well-paying jobs and continuing higher education. The Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence honors those...
Tags: Workforce Development, Adult Education, Community College 
