Community Colleges

Tuition-free community college is presumed to be on the chopping block in President Biden’s Build Back Better Act, but there are still ways that lawmakers can lower the cost of the program without scrapping it completely.

Community college leaders celebrated new legislation allowing their institutions to offer more four-year degrees. The measure is also a win for the national community college baccalaureate movement.

The California law promises to streamline the transfer process for community college students. College leaders and faculty members are skeptical.

A new report examines how much control community colleges have over former students’ wages and their ability to pay off loans postcollege.

Chancellor Bryan Reece was reinstated by the Contra Costa Community College Governing Board. He was put on administrative leave amid a tumultuous year for the district.

The Schuler Education Foundation plans to give $500 million to up to 25 liberal arts colleges -- including Bates, Carleton and Union -- to expand access for underserved students.

Battered by enrollment declines and lost academic momentum among low-income students, colleges across the country are ramping up their off-campus outreach efforts in the wake of the pandemic.

College and university leaders are taking steps to counter the sharp decline in enrollment among Black men during the pandemic.