Community colleges in the spotlight A year after* *President Barack Obama stood up at Macomb Community Collegein Michigan to highlight the need for more graduates and to announce the American Graduation Initiative, the nation’s publicly funded two-year colleges are playing a significant ...
Amid budget cuts and overcrowding at community colleges, for-profit institutions seek a niche Community colleges – typically the country’s cheapest option for higher education – face a new and unlikely rival: the fast-growing industry of for-profit colleges. To understand why students are turning to more expensive options like for-profits, ...
Finances and financial aid at community colleges For years, community colleges have borne the brunt of state budget cuts nationwide, and they continue to receive the equivalent of poverty wages in federal and state funding. And yet community colleges are much more dependent on state funding than ...
Push is on to find more effective models of remedial education For far too many community college students, remedial education is where their college careers begin – and end. Their need to take catch-up courses in subjects never mastered in high school remains one of the most intractable obstacles to ...