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Participants in an apprenticeship program that matches employers with community colleges were able to earn substantially more after one year than their peers at community colleges, a new study finds.
The Federation for Advanced Manufacturing Education targets the widespread need for "middle-skill workers" who are capable of operating advanced manufacturing technology. Students in the program combine two days a week of community college study with three days a week of hands-on training on the factory floor while receiving part-time wages.

College closures, academic program terminations, and institutional mergers are nothing new on the higher education landscape. But this year, during what looks like just the initial phases of the coronavirus pandemic, large-scale administrative restructuring in higher education is accelerating at a pace seldom, if ever, seen before.
In other words, higher ed’s big shake-up is here.

Less than two weeks after regulators began the process of shutting it down, Corinthian Colleges Inc.’s leaders reportedly took nearly $1 million in bonuses. By January 2017, the U.S. Department of Education had approved more than $558 million in discharges for borrowers who attended the for-profit chain, with more discharges looming.
The lesson is clear: Until for-profit college executives fear more than a mild rebuke for fleecing students and taxpayers, their actions will not change.

As colleges and universities issued statements this year affirming that Black lives matter, many Black faculty members remained unimpressed with mere words of support—at once dubious and hopeful that this moment might lead to real, lasting change for themselves and their Black colleagues.
Scholars discuss what it’s like to be a Black professor in 2020, who should be doing antiracist work on campus, and why diversity interventions that attempt to “fix” Black academics for a rigged game miss the point entirely.