The three winning student authors and three employees featured in the winning essays each received a $1,000 check and were to be recognized during NISOD’s annual conference in Austin, Texas. The winning student essays will also be published on Community College Week’s.

I remember staring out the back of the C-17 aircraft as it catapulted me from a life that was familiar straight into the chaos of combat. I didn’t know what to expect when I saw the aircraft’s back doors open onto the Iraqi desert. But, I knew one thing; I was going to finish the job I was sent there to do.

I remember it like it was yesterday, walking onto the Portland Community College campus, and my heart racing 100 mph.

grade I completed was the eighth grade. By the time I went back to school I was older, a mother of three children, and a housewife to an abusive husband. Furthermore, English is my second language and I often struggle to write and understand everyday topics.

When she isn’t working at Tekfab, Bledsoe, 36, can be found in her home shop — which includes a small forge — crafting garden flowers out of metal and experimenting with art deco-like visual arts made from nuts, washers and other common materials.

ROUGE, La. (AP) — After escaping budget cuts for the first time in nearly a decade, Louisiana’s public college leaders asked lawmakers to keep them from the chopping block next year and preserve the financing they say is needed to recruit faculty and students.

“This,” in Goldrick-Rab’s telling, is hunger, euphemistically called “food insecurity,” meaning that many community college students — who characteristically occupy the lowest rungs of the country’s economic ladder — are going to bed, or class, hungry.

Wilkerson is among a handful of septuagenarians taking classes at Ivy Tech Community College’s Bloomington campus. What they’re studying ranges from art to accounting. The paths they took through life are just as varied, but they all have similar reasons for going back to college.

Occenc, known as Fredno to family and friends, is currently enrolled in WWCC’s culinary arts program, where he recently started working with Asian cuisine. Which is fine, delicious and all that, but it’s the foods of the Republic of Haiti that enthrall this chef.

“This ruling is troubling for the 2,000 DACA students currently enrolled in Maricopa Community Colleges,” he said in a statement. “During the past five years, more than 600 DACA students earned an associate’s degree or a certificate from one of our colleges and are making valuable contributions to the health of our economy.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has hired several industry insiders and frozen Obama-era regulations that would have increased protections for students. She has reduced loan forgiveness relief for some former students defrauded by their schools, meaning that the forprofit industry could be on the hook for less.

According to the Institute for Higher Education Policy, college tuition costs have risen 538 percent since 1985; medical costs have increased only 286 percent in the same period. Across the U. S. in public, private, and proprietary colleges and universities tuition has been rising at an alarming rate.

Another is a mother who walked across the stage to claim her degree in the company of her two daughters, who graduated from the same college on the very same day. Mother and daughters took some courses together and pushed one another across the finish line.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A partnership aims to educate sworn and civilian members of a police department on African-American history in Washington, D.C., along with the history of the district’s neighborhoods..

That’s despite having thrived as a dual enrollment student at Wallace State, making the drive to Hanceville three nights a week for college courses in the Machine Tool Technology Department after her high school classes were over.

The association is partnering with Kirkwood Community College to offer a summer course where students help construct a house. HBA members have also committed to funding the cost for students in ICCSD who want to take the class and get the college credit.

I remember staring out the back of the C-17 aircraft as it catapulted me from a life that was familiar straight into the chaos of combat. I didn’t know what to expect when I saw the aircraft’s back doors open onto the Iraqi desert. But, I knew one thing; I was going to finish the job I was sent there to do.

I remember it like it was yesterday, walking onto the Portland Community College campus, and my heart racing 100 mph.