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Are microcredentials the future of education? How short-term programs are changing higher ed

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two years ago, Camille Charleston moved from Haiti to the United States, hoping to escape “survival mode” and pursue the American ...

Major expansion of Pell grants for college, workforce credentials is coming: What to know

Americans who want to upskill or try a new career may soon be able to apply for federal financial aid for workforce ...

$2 million grant awarded to UTPB for expanding workplace credential programs

The U.S. Department of Education awarded $2 million dollars to UTPB to expand workforce credential programs and boost job ...

UT Permian Basin awarded $2 Million federal grant to expand workforce credentialing programs

The University of Texas Permian Basin has been awarded a $2 million competitive federal grant to expand workforce-focused credential programs that help students quickly enter high-demand careers. The ...
American Enterprise Institute

Short-Term Workforce Education Boosts Earnings—but Field of Study Matters

Students in short-term workforce education programs will soon get some help covering tuition costs. The recently-passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act expands Pell Grants to workforce programs as short as ...
Inside Higher Ed

4-Year Institutions Eye Programs Eligible for Workforce Pell

Four-year colleges and universities won nearly half of the FIPSE grants awarded for short-term programs eligible for Workforce Pell, surprising some community college leaders who have spent decades ...
WEAU

UW-Stout will create short-term programs to fill region’s high-demand jobs with help from $2 million federal grant

MENOMONIE, Wis. (UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-STOUT PRESS RELEASE) - University of Wisconsin-Stout will work closely with Wisconsin businesses to ensure a recently announced $2 million federal grant will ...
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Education Department Launches Push For Accreditation Reform And Short-Term Skills

The U.S. Department of Education (ED) today announced seven new priorities under the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) for the Fiscal Year 2025 grant competition, earmarking ...
LAist

‘Serving adult learners’: California community colleges are expanding short-term career programs

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. Joanne Scott had been without ...
The Baltimore Sun

Howard schools releases short-term plans for special education, but some still frustrated

Howard County school board Chair Jolene Mosley sat at the dais at a recent board meeting and fired a question at Superintendent Bill Barnes. “Mr. Barnes, are you guys committed to changing special ...
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Are microcredentials the future of education? How short-term programs are changing higher ed

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, ...
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‘Serving adult learners’: California community colleges are expanding short-term career programs

EdSource · When teens counsel teens: Why peer support programs are growing Joanne Scott had been without full-time work for about two decades and was struggling to reenter the workforce. Then she ...