State policy

The new chancellor, Nancy Zimpher, in the middle of visits to all 64 of its campuses, discusses her emerging agenda in a podcast interview.

California's community colleges are being told to enroll more and more students -- even as they cannot find ways to educate and graduate those already there.

As officials in California have grappled for more than two years with a structure and law for regulating for-profit colleges in the state, there has been much speculation about hypothetical ways in which the expiration of the law governing for-profit regulation could limit the ability of students to seek redress from career colleges f

Wisconsin denies state financial aid to students at Christian university -- not for religious reasons, but because it is not regionally accredited.

State and local support for higher education grew 5.7 percent during the last fiscal year -- just before the economy fell apart.

Only a decade old, Louisiana's community colleges are booming and find themselves in an unusual situation -- seen by four-year institutions as legislative favorites.

That too many young people come out of high school ill-prepared for college or the work force is little disputed. The questions of why that's so and how to fix the situation, however, have too often resulted in finger pointing, with many college faculty members complaining that high schools are asking too little of their students and high school officials saying that colleges send mixed signals about what they want students to be able to do.

Survey of state directors of community college systems finds many experienced midyear state budget cuts last year and expect another round of such cuts in 2010.

U.S. Senate plan would have states collect students' test scores and other information and link it to wide range of other systems.

State of Wisconsin agrees to award financial aid to students at small Christian university, reversing previous decision based on institution's accrediting status.