Community Colleges

The number of undergraduate degree earners fell last year for the first time since 2012. Is it a bump in the road or a harbinger of a changing higher ed landscape?

Free community college is back in President Biden’s budget. Although Congress is unlikely to support the full $90 billion, experts hope for a smaller budget item to provide free programs for about 90,000 students a year.

City College of San Francisco students, faculty and staff members are fed up with cold classrooms. Trustees called on administrators to address long-neglected maintenance issues and aging heating systems after some campus buildings went months without heat.

An entrepreneur’s for-profit education company promised to save an evangelical liberal arts college with online enrollments. Now critics are blaming it for pushing the college to the brink of closure.

To address pandemic learning loss, schools and colleges must fundamentally rethink education, shifting to experiential, interactive learning, G. Gabrielle Starr writes.

A draft of a faculty agreement for the Maricopa Community Colleges proposed reducing pay for one group of faculty members to bring their wages in line with others. The final version mostly nixed the pay cut, but critics are still concerned.

Despite the decline in transfers, a new report also says six-year college completion rates among transfer students improved.

California governor Gavin Newsom’s proposed budget puts funding for UCLA on the line if the highly selective university doesn’t create a guaranteed transfer pathway for community college students. The proposal was met with mixed reactions.