Academics

Americans see the work force and societal value of getting a college degree, a survey from New America finds, but community colleges have more support than do other sectors.

Other institutions can learn from historically black colleges by using culturally responsive teaching to improve developmental education success rates for minority students, new report finds.

As students across the country prepare to receive their degrees, five authors explore how to increase their numbers.

By Nicholas A. Bowman And Four Other Scholars

Unusual foundation grant will pay for community colleges and four-year institutions to improve their transfer pathways, with goal of 30 percent bump in four-year degrees earned by community college graduates.

Paraphrasing tools, freely available online, can fool plagiarism detection software, study finds.

On average, white and Asian students earn a college-level credential at a rate about 20 percentage points higher than Hispanic and black students do, a new report shows.

Community colleges in New York and California are hoping to replicate the success of the City University of New York’s Accelerated Study in Associate Programs, which has doubled completion rates.

A growing body of research shows that full-time college students are more likely to graduate, yet experts caution against policies that neglect part-time students.