When The White House announced last week its “Fair Chance” higher education pledge, it caught the eye of RAMC, in particular our board member Rob Denson, president of Des Moines Community College in Iowa. The notion of “Fair Chance” is that colleges will make pledges to help those who have been accused or convicted of […]

Our coalition of community colleges, called Rebuilding America’s Middle Class, is made up of leading community college practitioners who have an acute understanding that policies set in Washington, DC can have a profound impact on our ability to serve students.  We’re very pleased that one of our priorities – a resumption and expansion of summer […]

Written by Joe May, President, Dallas County (TX) Community College District As new Education Secretary John King prepares to visit Milwaukee to give his first commencement address at a community college next week, he is well aware of the challenges facing our country, ones that start in the classroom but also extend into the workplace, […]