Short-term credentials are proliferating and growing more popular as students come to see them as quicker, cheaper routes to jobs than traditional degrees. But are these programs as inexpensive as ...

Joanne Scott had been without full-time work for about two decades and was struggling to reenter the workforce. Then she learned this year about a short-term pharmacy technician program at Mt. San ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two years ago, Camille Charleston moved from Haiti to the United States, hoping to escape “survival mode” and pursue the American ...

When the U.S. Department of Education cited short-term workforce programs as a priority for grants from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), community college leaders ...

MENOMONIE, Wis. (UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-STOUT PRESS RELEASE) - University of Wisconsin-Stout will work closely with Wisconsin businesses to ensure a recently announced $2 million federal grant will ...

Students looking to take short-term job training programs will be able to use Pell Grant to pay for it starting July 1.

The community college is offering some new six-month programs that join a slate of more than 20 career pathway certificates the school already offers. Phlebotomy student Sierra Schultz (right) ...