A law extends Pell Grant eligiblity to include short-term workforce programs, like HVAC, welding and nursing assistant. It ...

Education and workforce development advocates say short-term training programs can help people obtain the new skills needed ...

What it means to go to college is changing. The pandemic dealt a once-in-a-lifetime shock to the system and, even as it ebbs, students haven’t returned to degree programs in the same numbers as before ...

Joanne Scott had been without full-time work for about two decades and was struggling to reenter the workforce. Then she learned this year about a short-term pharmacy technician program at Mt. San ...

Two years ago, Camille Charleston moved from Haiti to the United States, hoping to escape “survival mode” and pursue the American dream. Charleston, 29, didn’t have enough money to pay for college, ...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. − Almost two years ago, Isaiah Hickerson woke up in the middle of the night from a dream that he was a coder. The dream was totally random; he didn’t know a thing about coding. He had a ...

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 21: The U.S. Capitol is seen at dusk, January 21, 2018 in Washington, DC. Lawmakers are convening for a Sunday session to try to resolve the government shutdown. (Photo by ...

The community college is offering some new six-month programs that join a slate of more than 20 career pathway certificates the school already offers. Phlebotomy student Sierra Schultz (right) ...

Instructor Andrew Folsom is teaching Andre Glover vertical stick welding during a Welding Fundamentals Class. (Bridget Baylor, Blue Ridge Community College) At just 22 years old, Christian Couric is ...

At the end of March, I had the honor of representing the Community College of Aurora and providing testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Small Business Subcommittee on ...

The frigid temperatures on the Harvard Business School campus in mid-January were a minor inconvenience for the 641 students enrolled in Short Intensive Programs (SIPs), the no-fee, no-credit elective ...

Congress recently opted not to fold into federal legislation on research and innovation a provision that would have made Pell Grants available to learners in very short-term training programs. But it ...