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Instructor says he was fired -- shortly after he complained to accreditor -- for refusing to water down his curriculum and requirements. Another instructor quit rather than comply.

Some educators see other factors besides a recovering economy as a reasons why their enrollments are low.

Stackable credential pathways have plenty of promise, but a new study fuels worries about poorly designed programs shunting underrepresented student groups into short-term programs of questionable value.

Data show that students who earn C's in foundational courses are much less likely to graduate. As a result, U of Arizona may require some C students to repeat a course.

State dollars for public higher education would go farther, prominent researchers argue, if more of it went to open-access colleges and need-based aid.

Moraine Valley Community College limits enrollment in some sections of college success course to African-American students -- and raises eyebrows.

Advocates of free community college initiatives want to remain nonpartisan, and sometimes that means altering the rhetoric.

Shootings and debate over police tactics prompt changes in programs that train law enforcement officials.

A planned scholarship to provide students in Kentucky with free tuition for the first two years is put on ice for a year by the state's governor.

The Obama administration announces a new $100 million competitive grants program to stimulate the expansion of free community college programs and connect college graduates to in-demand jobs.