Community Colleges

A new report explains how and why a public-private partnership that sought to help more community college students transfer to selective universities failed.

New analysis of Oregon Promise tuition-free scholarship program found that it increased community college enrollment but decreased enrollment at four-year institutions in the first year, and that fewer first-generation and low-income students benefited financially than expected.

Despite calls to step down, the board president of a two-year college in Illinois is refusing to resign after posting several Islamophobic and anti-immigrant memes on social media.

The largest technical college in Kansas is paying relocation and housing costs for students to move to the area, many from other states, to deal with a work-force shortage in the local aviation industry.

Professors on campus say the university plans to turn a research-rich department into a more general biology-focused premed feeder school.

Hudson Valley Community College plans to offer classes overseas in an effort to stabilize enrollment and keep faculty employed.

Educators from the university and elsewhere consider whether innovation is still possible in liberal arts education.