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Bonamici hears concerns of community colleges, students April 24 2021 Federal aid is coming, but lawmaker is told that colleges would like help to maximize benefits. Community colleges and their students will benefit from an array of federal aid programs, but presidents and students told U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici they would like help maximizing their benefits. President Joe Bidens pandemic recovery plan, which Congress passed and Biden signed on March 11, contains $40 billion for h...

PCC announces retirement of Mark Mitsui, Sylvia Kelley Mitsui, the president of Portland Community College, will retire after the 2021-22 school year. Portland Community Colleges president and executive vice president plan to retire, the college announced Friday, April 16. Mark Mitsui, who has been president of PCC since 2016, will retire in June 2022, after the 2021-22 school year. Sylvia Kelley, the colleges second-highest official, who has served since 2014, will step down this comi...

College Joins 35 University Leaders Nationwide To Launch Taskforce on Higher Education and Opportunity Wake Tech partners with higher education leaders to address major challenges facing students and communities across the country. By:   Michelle Fauver    |    Web Posted: 03/17/21 2:40pm Raleigh, NC (March 17, 2021) – Today, Wake Technical Community College joined nearly 40 institutions to launch the Taskforce on Higher Education and Opportunity. Wake Tech and Task...

Today, the University of Arizona joined 38 higher education institutions and partner organizations to launch the Taskforce on Higher Education and Opportunity. The University of Arizona and task force member partners are driven to act by the challenges caused by the pandemic, income inequality, the changing nature of work and levels of unemployment among recent college graduates nearly double those seen in the 2008 recession. The impact of this crisis is falling unevenly across groups and dispr...

Proposal Would Help Oregon College Students In Need It’s no secret that college students often are low on cash, but hunger among Oregon students is soaring. A measure in the state Legislature would point them to helpful resources. House Bill 2835 would create a benefits navigator position on every community college and public university campus in the state to help students apply for federal, state and local benefits programs. “When students don’t know where their next meal is coming from...

Pulling Together to Provide Our Neighbors Dignity and Economic Opportunity Bank of America gives Central City Concern and the Portland Community College Foundation $400,000 through its annual Neighborhood Builders grant. Presented by Bank of America What’s This? By Ben McBee 12/21/2020 at 12:30pm Even before the pandemic, many Portlanders were living on the edge, dealing with housing and job insecurity, as well as racial inequality. The coronavirus only deepened their risk and hardships. W...