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Two-Year Institutions, Four-Year Degrees
Community colleges in Arizona can now offer four-year programs, providing more affordable and streamlined pathways to bachelor's degrees.
Free College Offer Lures Thousands
State officials in Michigan expected a big response when they launched a free college program for adults earlier this year. They got lots of takers, all right -- 67,000 and counting.
Going Big
President Biden’s ambitious American Families Plan is welcome news for leaders of community colleges and minority-serving institutions.
Opinion
Colleges Are Sabotaging Black and Brown Students
Institutional policies keep minority students underrepresented in the technical fields that would help them most after graduation, Ryan Craig writes.
Steep Enrollment Declines This Spring
If campus leaders thought fall 2020 enrollment declines were bad, spring's enrollment drops are even worse, especially for community colleges.
Seeking Better Data in Hopes of Better Outcomes
Community college leaders say they want to prioritize gathering data on the well-being of students, but efforts to ramp up student needs data are decentralized and underresourced, according to a new report.
Opinion
We Must End Either-Or Thinking About Skills
When it comes to building a better learning system, such a perspective presents a false choice that will intensify rather than diminish economic and social inequity, writes Debra Humphreys.
Lawmakers Asked to Consider Funding for Apprenticeships at 2-Year Colleges
President Biden's proposed $12 billion in funding for community colleges could go, in part, to help institutions build degree-based apprenticeship programs.