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Leveraging Partnerships to Support Local Workforce Needs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In an article published by CNN titled, “The US Desperately Needs Skilled Workers. but The Community Colleges that Train Them Are Woefully Underfunded” (Wallace, 2022), Chancellor Kim Beatty spoke of MCC’s efforts to consolidate several schools and programs to create learning hubs.

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Pell Grant to increase by $500

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Congress is planning to increase the maximum Pell Grant award to $7,395—a $500 increase—and put more money toward several student success grant programs as part of a $1.7 trillion spending package for fiscal year 2023. They weren’t making big bold strokes in this budget.” Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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More money for Pell Grants, research in federal budget

Confessions of a Community College Dean

billion to colleges and universities thanks to earmarks and pouring millions more into student success grant programs as part of the $1.7 trillion spending package for fiscal year 2023 that lawmakers approved late last month. ” Higher education groups praised the Pell Grant increase and other provisions in the spending bill.