Tag: Community Colleges
More Than $113 Million in Technical Training Facilities Opened in One...
America's Technical Colleges Are Building Again
In the span of one week, new advanced manufacturing, automotive and semiconductor training facilities opened in Illinois, Nebraska, Florida...
Wake Tech Says 21 AI Agents Are Helping It Manage Rapid...
Wake Tech's 21 AI Agents Offer a Glimpse of the Agentic Campus
Community colleges have spent the past several years asking whether artificial intelligence belongs...
Workforce Pell Is Moving From Policy to Practice
A major federal workforce policy entered a new phase this week as the U.S. Department of Labor awarded $65 million to community-college consortia in...
AI Data Centers Are Creating a New Advanced Manufacturing Workforce in...
The artificial intelligence workforce is much larger than software engineers, data scientists and machine-learning specialists.
Behind every AI model is an expanding physical infrastructure of...
College of Southern Maryland Builds Manufacturing-to-Apprenticeship Workforce Pipeline
The College of Southern Maryland is building something more significant than a new set of manufacturing courses.
It is developing the infrastructure to connect hands-on...
Illinois Invests $20 Million in Five Community College Manufacturing Academies
Illinois is making a significant investment in community colleges as infrastructure for the state's advanced manufacturing economy.
On September 14, 2026, Gov. JB Pritzker and...
NSF Invests $290M in Quantum Research—and the Next STEM Workforce
The quantum workforce is beginning to move from a specialized research concern into a broader STEM education and workforce-development challenge.
The U.S. National Science Foundation...
14-Year Community College Study Finds More Degrees—but No Clear Earnings Gain
A landmark community college program succeeded at something higher education has struggled to accomplish for decades: getting substantially more students across the graduation stage.
Fourteen...
Pennsylvania’s New Heavy-Highway CTE Grants Include a $3M Bet on Student...
Pennsylvania is making $12 million available to schools, career and technical centers, colleges and other educational institutions to build or expand programs serving the...
$100 Million Critical Minerals Plan Pulls CTE Into the U.S. Supply...
A $100 million federal critical-minerals workforce announcement released Friday contains a much larger technical-education story than its headline suggests.
The U.S. Department of Energy announced...
