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Hungry and Unable to Complete
A new study points to food and housing issues that prevent many community college students from progressing.
A Boom in Promise
While California considers a plan to cut tuition and lower the cost of going to college, more than 50 local free two-year initiatives are popping up across the state.
Political Turmoil, Public Misunderstanding: A Survey of Presidents
Higher education is widely misunderstood by the public, struggling to enroll sufficient numbers of students from low-income backgrounds and likely...
Opinion
Make History
Wick Sloane challenges the college leaders at this weekend’s annual meeting of the American Council on Education: fight for low-income students.
Harvard Law Will Accept GRE
Move could change the debate in legal education about alternatives to the LSAT.
New Nonprofit Owner for EDMC
The Dream Center Foundation, a religious missionary organization based in Los Angeles, plans to buy EDMC, a struggling for-profit chain that enrolls 65,000 students. The resulting nonprofit college group will be secular.
Replicating the Tennessee Promise
As Tennessee’s Promise program expands to include adult students, other community college scholarship programs are figuring out how to replicate its success.
Opinion
Credentials, Jobs and the New Economy
Given the high dropout rates and poor job-placement rates of for-profit colleges, people often blame them for what are, in fact, labor market failures in an economy that has shifted new risks to workers, writes Tressie McMillan Cottom.