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Report: Childcare Program Underserves Black Student Parents at Community Colleges

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The CCAMPIS program allows colleges to use grant funding to subsidize child care costs for Pell Grant-eligible students, support campus-based or community-based child care programs, provide before or after-school services, or offer student support like financial and career counseling.

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MassBay Community College to Offer Free Tech Education and Training to Unemployed and Underemployed Workers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Participants will be able to get individual career service assistance, career counseling, resume-building and interview skill workshops, and wrap-around services such as childcare and transportation stipends.

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Report: Community College Students Lack Information About Career Paths

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

community college students are finding that their schools are not equipping them with the knowledge to succeed after they graduate, according to recent findings from University of Texas at Austin’s 2023 Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCCSE). Sizable portions of U.S.

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2023 IRTS Summer Fellowship Program application is LIVE!

CAPD

IRTS SUMMER FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM Sunday, June 4 – Saturday, August 5, 2023 A 9-Week All Expense-Paid Media Experience in NYC! The 2023 IRTS Summer Fellowship Program application is LIVE! Extensive career counseling and networking opportunities to ensure that each student makes the most of this New York experience!

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Adult learners: Who they are & what they want from college

EAB

But not all adult learners are looking to higher ed to advance their careers. In our 2023 survey of adult learners , 30% said they want to further their education to pursue their passions, while more than a quarter of students said they seek additional education to help make a difference in the world. Here’s what to do next.

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ChatGPT: Threat or Menace?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

It could then serve as initial-tier career counseling. The sad fact is that advising and career counseling resources on most campuses are grossly inadequate and that instruction in writing is insufficient. Is this Career Advice newsletter?: We must do better, and text generation software might help.

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Community college students want more clarity on their career paths

University Business

A large majority of community college students have a career in mind, but they also say that they don’t have enough information about the paths that will get them to those jobs. Some 90% of 83,000-plus students who responded to the 2023 Community College Survey of Student Engagement said they had zeroed in on a career path.