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2025 Jack Kent Cooke Foundation transfer scholars

1 day ago | ccdaily.com | Matthew Dembicki

Miami Dade College‘s Maite Roque Franco wants to be a physician. Jessica Gallegos of LaGuardia Community College aims to become a music producer and sound engineer. Odudu Ekpenyong, who attends Union College of Union County, NJ, aspires to be an airline captain. They each plan to transfer upon graduation from their community college to a competitive four-year institution with financial help and support from a foundation that has rewarded high-achieving two-year college students for 25 years.
Snapshots - Community College Daily

4 days ago | ccdaily.com | Matthew Dembicki

By Matthew DembickiMay 11, 2025 Print Photos from institutional members of the American Association of Community Colleges. Pima Community College Chancellor Jeffrey Nasse (left) welcomes Rep. Juan Ciscomani (R-Arizona) and Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer, who last week toured the Tucson college’s workforce development programs and met with local business leaders to discuss ways to strengthen workforce pipelines.
A new AI model: The Human Guided Learning Ecosystem - Community College Daily

4 days ago | ccdaily.com | Lee Lambert |Keith Rocci

As artificial intelligence (AI) continues its rapid evolution, a wave of apprehension has swept through higher education. Many fear AI will supplant educators or render our institutions obsolete. But what if this focus is misplaced? What if the future of higher education doesn't just survive AI, but thrives because of it? Imagine a system where
Funding roundup - Community College Daily

6 days ago | ccdaily.com | Tabitha Whissemore

Miami Dade College (MDC) announced the launch of the Miami Startup Ecosystem Internship Program, supported by a $1 million grant from the Blackstone Charitable Foundation and JPMorganChase. The program will offer students paid, hands-on learning experiences at tech startups and scalable small businesses. Over the next two years, the program will place at least 200 students in internships.
Reporter’s notebook

1 week ago | ccdaily.com | Matthew Dembicki

Rhode Island’s new online RN-to-BSN programWisconsin partnership opens nursing, teaching degree pathsTennessee college provides scholarships to study abroadKids on Campus project making Head Start connectionsThe Community College of Rhode Island (CCRI) is partnering with Rhode Island College to offer a fully online registered nurse to bachelor of science in nursing (RN-to-BSN) program to help meet the state’s healthcare system needs.
Richmond Fed to expand survey about wraparound services

1 week ago | ccdaily.com | Matthew Dembicki

There are anecdotal stories about how wraparound services — from childcare and transportation, to mental health and academic and career counseling — are helping to keep community college students enrolled and on a path to completion. Now, the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond (Richmond Fed) wants to take a closer look at what wraparound services public two-year colleges provide, as well as the barriers that prevent them from adding additional services.
ED resumes collecting delinquent student loans

1 week ago | ccdaily.com | Matthew Dembicki

The U.S. Education Department (ED) on Monday officially resumed collections on defaulted federal student loans, as recent reports indicate delinquency rates are higher than ever. Those who don’t resume payments risk withholdings from Social Security benefits, tax refunds and garnished wages. The federal government has not collected on defaulted student loans since March 2020, when the first Trump administration paused repayments as a temporary relief measure during the Covid pandemic.
Ohio ASAP shows success beyond completion

1 week ago | ccdaily.com | Tabitha Whissemore

In 2014, three Ohio colleges set out to improve access and success outcomes for low-income students by adapting the City University of New York’s (CUNY) innovative Accelerated Study in Associate Programs (ASAP). A new report from MDRC looks at the eight-year findings from the ASAP Ohio programs. ASAP provides an array of supports to students, including intensive advising, special classes, tuition waivers and assistance with transportation and other basic needs.
Funding roundup - Community College Daily

1 week ago | ccdaily.com | Tabitha Whissemore

In Massachusetts, a $100,000 grant to Mount Wachusett Community College (MWCC) from the George I. Alden Trust will support expanding the college’s Automotive Technology Center. Specifically, the funds will go toward he first phase of a three-part expansion. During this phase, MWCC will install two modular classrooms, adding 2,000 square feet of instructional space. Demand has grown in the automotive technology program, driven, in part, by MWCC’s electric vehicle (EV) courses.
Newsmakers - Community College Daily

1 week ago | ccdaily.com | Matthew Dembicki

Helen Castellanos Brewer will serve as the ninth president of College of the Mainland (COM) in Texas, effective July 1. She is currently executive vice president for academic and student affairs at COM, bringing more than 20 years of higher education experience to the role.