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2026

The Enhancing Excellence in Teaching Program (EETP) provides forgivable loans to Nebraska teachers enrolled in an…

Nebraska college and university reports of funding from foreign adversarial sources for the period July 1, 2025, through December 31, 2025, have been posted on the Commission’s…

2025


The Nebraska Statewide Workforce & Educational Reporting System (NSWERS) today released a comprehensive evaluation of the Access College Early (ACE) Scholarship Program, offering the most…

LB306, which was passed by the Legislature and signed by the Governor on June 4…

2024

The Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education will hold consecutive public hearings on Thursday, September 19, 2024,…

Per Nebraska Revised Statute 85-3102, on July 1, 2024, administration of the Excellence in Teaching Act transitions…

Nebraska’s Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education announces the launch of the Door to College Scholarship Program (DTC), with applications accepted beginning May 1, 2024, for the 2024…

The Career-Readiness and Dual-Credit (CRDC) Education Grant Program, which provides grants to teachers enrolled in graduate course work necessary to teach dual credit courses in high school or to…

On March 15, the Coordinating Commission reviewed and approved the 2024 Nebraska Higher Education Progress Report, which includes a wide…

Governor Jim Pillen has appointed Dr. LeDonna Griffin to the Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education in an at-large position. Dr. Griffin is the founder and CEO of Leaders to Legends,…

2023

Dr. Kathleen Fimple, academic programs officer for the Nebraska Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education (CCPE), was acknowledged by the Midwestern Higher Education Compact (MHEC) as a…

Governor Jim Pillen has appointed Dannika Nelson to the Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education in an at-large position.  Nelson is the co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of…

Governor Jim Pillen has appointed Tamara Weber to the Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education representing District 5, which encompasses southeast Nebraska except for Lancaster County…

The Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education elected Dr. Paul Von Behren its new chair at its May 19 meeting at Central Community College in Grand Island.  He will serve from July…