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Fiscal Year Crossover: President Biden’s FY 2025 Budget Unveiled as Congress Continues to Negotiate FY 2024 Appropriations

Going over the current status of the fiscal year 2024 process and reviewing the President's fiscal year 2025 budget request.

The new kids on campus? Toddlers, courtesy of Head Start

And not just toddlers — infants and preschoolers too. A new effort aims to help the 4 million college students raising kids by putting Head Start programs on community college campuses.

Skills-Based Hiring: Creating Pathways for STARs in Maryland

In 2023, the Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT) launched a partnership pilot program that focuses on increasing the effectiveness of skills-based hiring. Skills-based hiring takes an equitable and data-driven approach to how employers think about recruitment. ACCT's pilot program in the State of Maryland will lead to a comprehensive framework on how other states and organizations can make skills-based hiring go from pre-announcement to implementation.

Elevating Student Voice: Resources from the Non-Credit to Credit Alignment Lab

ACCT and ESG are pleased to help introduce and amplify the voices of students and institutional leaders focused on serving them, including profiles of six students who each attended colleges participating in NCAL and benefited from the work to build alignment between non-credit and credit.
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