Local News Matters Bay Area: Community colleges use AI to fight fraudsters — but scammers keep finding new ways in. “The system has lost more than $30 million to fraud since 2024, but the latest losses are down from the highest levels experienced in early 2025. Between January and May 2025, many scammers used AI to inundate the system with bot students and to steal more than $13 million. […]

WVUA: Shelton State first community college contributing to HBCU Digital Collection. “Shelton State Community College has become the first community college to contribute historical material to the HBCU Digital Collection. Selections from the C.A. Fredd State archival collection are now digitized and publicly available as part of the HBCU Digital Collection, hosted by the HBCU Digital Library […]

Reminder: this week's CCCOER webinar is just days away.

"A Fierce Commitment to Teaching: Michigan Faculty Voices on OER"
Wednesday, May 20 — 15:00 EDT • 12:00 PDT

Three Washtenaw Community College faculty members and a librarian-moderator share practical strategies, classroom experiences, and unexpected insights from their collaborative OER journeys.
Haven't registered yet? Now's the time: https://twp.ai/E5BjXc

#OER #OpenEducation #CommunityColleges

Save the date!

On Wednesday, May 20 at 15:00 EDT & 12:00 PDT, #CCCOER hosts "A Fierce Commitment to Teaching: Michigan Faculty Voices on OER."

Washtenaw Community College faculty in Ann Arbor share how Open Educational Resources reshape course redesign — reducing costs, removing financial barriers, and building more inclusive classrooms.

Panel: Molly Lederman (moderator), Mary Mullalond, Kei Graves, Josiah Jackson.

Register: https://twp.ai/E5BqFw

#OER #OpenEducation #CommunityColleges

Trump Administration Pulls Out of Civil Rights Settlements Backing Trans Students

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/us/politics/transgender-students-civil-rights.html

‘A complete joke’: Higher education funding overhaul finds few takers in Missouri Senate

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://missouriindependent.com/2026/03/26/a-complete-joke-higher-education-funding-overhaul-finds-few-takers-in-missouri-senate/

"Community colleges are scrambling to adjust to the many disruptive changes AI is bringing both to the classroom and to how the institutions need to think about preparing students for the future.

That was the subject of a Harvard Business School conference focused on overcoming the unique financial, administrative, and curricula challenges facing the schools, which offer both vocational training and an option for the first two years of a bachelor’s degree program.

What has become clear is that AI cannot be ignored.

“More than 70 percent of employers say they’d rather hire someone with less experience but who understands AI than someone with more experience. That’s a big change,” said Lisa Gevelber, chief marketing officer for Gemini, Google’s AI product.

The daylong conference was organized by the Project on Workforce at HBS, the Education Design Lab, and Axim Collaborative, a Harvard-MIT nonprofit that supports organizations that help students overcome obstacles that keep them from completing a community college education. It featured leaders from both the public and private sectors as well as community college administrators and scholars."

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/11/how-ai-is-disrupting-classroom-curriculum-at-community-colleges/

#AI #GenerativeAI #HigherEd #CommunityColleges #USA #BigTech #Education

Harvard Gazette: How AI is disrupting classroom, curriculum at community colleges . “That was the subject of a Harvard Business School conference focused on overcoming the unique financial, administrative, and curricula challenges facing the schools, which offer both vocational training and an option for the first two years of a bachelor’s degree program. What has become clear is that AI […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/28/harvard-gazette-how-ai-is-disrupting-classroom-curriculum-at-community-colleges/

Colleges Face a Reckoning: Is a Degree Really Necessary?

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/us/value-of-higher-education-attainment-rates-graduation.html

#GiftArticle

#Trump Went to War With the Ivies. #CommunityColleges Are Being Hit.

Measures intended to punish elite #universities are inflicting collateral damage on the nation’s two-year #colleges, which educate 40% of all undergraduates.

#education #law #AcademicFreedom
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/magazine/trump-community-college-anti-dei.html?unlocked_article_code=1.bk8.O9vd.hhK-1Pm-KwAA&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare