Community Colleges

A community college system leader and a higher education policy expert discuss the pros and cons of expanding the main federal financial aid program to include eight-week vocational programs.

More than half of CUNY community college students drop out within three years without a degree and struggle with hefty nontuition costs, a new report found. These are long-standing problems system leaders have tried combat.

An experiment suggests colleges can help students bypass remedial courses for college-level classes by using algorithms instead of placement tests to predict academic outcomes.

Virtual advising is disrupting the pandemic’s devastating toll on lower-income high school seniors, increasing the access they need now more than ever, write Angel B. Pérez and Nick Watson.

The Maine Community College System will train hundreds of rural students in remote work skills as the pandemic continues to shift the American job landscape.

The Peralta Community College District Board of Trustees has been roiled by conflict amid ongoing financial problems, according to a recent Alameda County civil grand jury report.

St. John’s College is getting closer to raising the money it needs to sustain a $17,000 tuition decrease the college made three years ago.

Some two-year colleges are reporting that summer enrollment is up at their institutions.