Community Colleges

A new faculty think tank says the completion agenda and its workforce fixation harm student access while largely ignoring government disinvestment in higher education.

Satirical fiction is targeting community colleges, which may be sign of the sector's deepening societal relevance.

The percentage of degree holders hasn't increased much during the Lumina Foundation's three-year push, but policy makers have jumped on the "completion agenda" bandwagon.

Faculty groups at CUNY sue to fight general education requirements, saying graduation rate obsession will lead to weaker academic rigor.

High school dropouts used to be able to qualify for federal grants and loans based on a basic skills test. That ends in July, and community colleges are worried about what will happen to these students.

With California's community colleges facing challenges that many say are insurmountable, the system begins to search for a new chancellor.

New study finds that one-third of students attend at least two colleges. Their most common transfer destination: community colleges.

Courses on how to learn and manage college life can boost graduation rates. The classes are catching on -- slowly -- at community colleges, but face resistance.

DePaul's new community college partnership aims to eliminate the mysteries behind transferring.

Community colleges would get $8 billion over the next 3 years, the maximum Pell Grant would increase, and some research funding would grow in the president's proposed budget for higher education programs.