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Last Rites for Graduation Rate
The Education Department plans to change widely disparaged federal definition of completion rate to include transfers and nontraditional students.
Tuition Model Quietly Spreading
Despite the uproar over Santa Monica, differential tuition has become normal at many public universities and is making inroads in community colleges.
Performance Pay for College Faculty
City Colleges of Chicago and union representing adult education instructors agree to bonus pay based on student performance.
How to End Remediation
Connecticut lawmakers want to eliminate all non-credit remedial courses. While a compromise is likely to emerge, the state's approach is seen as visionary by some, foolish by others.
Community Colleges as Fiction Fodder
Satirical fiction is targeting community colleges, which may be sign of the sector's deepening societal relevance.
Not Quite Complete
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.
Big Job, Big Problems
With California's community colleges facing challenges that many say are insurmountable, the system begins to search for a new chancellor.
Birth Control and College Completion
Project links pregnancy planning with finishing degrees, and brings edgy course content to two-year college curriculums.