Short-term community-college certificates, which have been growing rapidly in popularity as a way to get students quickly and cheaply into jobs, do not, in fact, help most recipients land employment ...

It's no secret that the community college sector and the completion agenda in particular, derived in large part from the American Graduation Initiative (AGI), have gotten a lot of attention recently.

Lindsey Strickland sees the dental assisting class she’s in as her first nibble at a larger career in dentistry. Strickland, 21, is taking a short term certificate program in dental assisting at ...

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Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology, a private two-year college in Boston, offers an 800-hour certificate program in HVAC and refrigeration. President and CEO Aisha Francis said she’d ...

Bipartisan support is building for federal legislation that would make Pell Grants available to students who are pursuing short-term certificates. Under current law, the major federal grants for ...