Community Colleges

The proposal from a Chicago mayoral candidate to offer free community college by merging the system with K-12 is unique. But local and national education experts say it wouldn’t work.

Small-college leaders share how their institutions have attempted to ward off enrollment crises before they happen.

The Trump administration's plan for "industry-recognized" apprenticeship resembles weak quality control of for-profit career colleges, writes Mary Alice McCarthy, and would increase risk for students, employers and taxpayers.

Community college transfer students succeed academically and bring many kinds of diversity to elite institutions, but report finds few are admitted.

Despite a plan to cut a third of classes, City College of San Francisco is growing.

New report says federal agencies should improve public awareness of food assistance programs to help combat hunger among college students.

To many people, vocational education has often meant learning a trade, but a more profound and important meaning of the term has been coming back into use, writes David S. Cunningham.

For-profit cosmetology operators in Iowa used legal threats to prevent competition with lower-priced community colleges, according to The New York Times, but the case appears to be an outlier.