Senate Bill 135 Strengthens Transparency, Pathways, and Affordability . FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 6, 2022 Contact: Jack Hershey or Tom Walsh COLUMBUS, OH – The passage of Senate Bill 135 in the Ohio General Assembly this week marks an important milestone in helping improve the state’s higher education system and put more Ohioans on [...]
Made possible through a $1.5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation involving ten participating institutions, this study will expand higher education’s understanding of how Black, Latinx, Indigenous, and Pell-eligible students enrolled in gateway courses can benefit. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date: February 1, 2022 Contact: Tom Walsh COLUMBUS, OH – The Ohio [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 21, 2021 Contact: Jack Hershey or Tom Walsh COLUMBUS, OH – Community college teachers across Ohio will hone their online teaching skills in 2021 through a 25-week course focused on online college instruction, thanks to a collaboration between the Ohio Association of Community Colleges (OACC) and the Association of College [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 18, 2020 Contact: Jack Hershey or Tom Walsh COLUMBUS, OH – The Ohio Association of Community Colleges (OACC) has named Richard Woodfield, Ph.D., as its new chief academic officer. Dr. Woodfield replaces Dr. Michael Snider, who retired earlier this year after more than a decade of service to the OACC [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, June 10, 2020 Contact: Jack Hershey or Tom Walsh COLUMBUS – To help provide Ohio’s students some things in short supply right now—certainty and safety—Ohio’s community colleges have come together to launch a new effort to help first-year college students put aside questions about where and how they’ll go to [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date: Thursday, May 14, 2020 Contact: Jack Hershey or Tom Walsh COLUMBUS, OH – Nearly 70 students from Ohio’s community college system have been named to the All-Ohio Community College Academic Team for their excellence in academics, leadership and community service. “With our commitment to providing an accessible and high-quality postsecondary [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, April 3, 2020 Contact: Jack Hershey or Tom Walsh COLUMBUS, OH – Ohio’s 23 community colleges have donated more than 200,000 medical face masks and pairs of gloves to hospitals and local first responders across the state, according to the Ohio Association of Community Colleges. Twenty-five much-needed medical ventilators are [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, December 12, 2019 Contact: Jack Hershey or Tom Walsh COLUMBUS, OHIO – As the 2019 tax year comes to a close and Ohioans are looking for charitable-giving tax deductions, the state’s 23 community colleges are encouraging families to consider making a financial gift to their local college, boosting efforts to [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, November 14, 2019 Contact: Jack Hershey or Tom Walsh COLUMBUS, OH – Students and alumni of Ohio’s community colleges want the world to know they’re proud of their education and tired of the mistaken notion that their schools don’t measure up to four-year institutions. So they’re spreading the message through [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, October 9, 2019 Contact: Jack Hershey or Tom Walsh COLUMBUS, OH – Ohio’s community colleges and hospitals are collaborating to address the ongoing health care staffing shortage and the need to promote career pathways. The Ohio Association of Community Colleges (OACC) and the Ohio Hospital Association are hosting the 2019 [...]