‘Not just numbers’: Community college students share their struggles to stay enrolledLAistCollege administrators say it’s important to amplify students’ stories to underline to local and state policymakers how the pandemic is making learning gaps worse…
Look out, for-profit colleges, here comes the Biden administrationBloombergThe new team will likely reinstate restrictions that Education Secretary Betsy DeVos dismantled. More California community college students are taking transfer-level courses, but critics say colleges must…
Judge orders government to fully reinstate DACA programNew York TimesUp to 300,000 additional undocumented immigrants could be allowed to apply for protection from deportation under a new court ruling. President Trump had sought to cancel…
Sharp declines in community college enrollment are being driven by disappearing male studentsThe 74At some community colleges, the losses are minor. At others, however, they are dramatic. With enrollment declining in the pandemic, no increases…
Tuition-free community college will continue in Connecticut in the spring, but long-term funding not yet securedHartford CourantTuition-free community college will continue in Connecticut in the spring after the Board of Regents for Higher Education’s finance…
DeVos says free college amounts to a ‘socialist takeover’Associated PressIn a veiled swing at President-elect Joe Biden’s education plans, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Tuesday blasted the push for free college as a “socialist takeover…
Commentary: We need a college leader as secretary of educationThe HillPresident-elect Joe Biden has promised he will appoint a former schoolteacher to the post, and all the names under speculation come from K-12. But why…
Commentary: Biden’s best choice for secretary of educationGoverningThe president-elect should look to the ranks of community-college leaders for filling this critical Cabinet post. Community colleges occupy a strategic position that gives them a unique perspective…
Commentary: Community colleges are helping students more than ever in the pandemicHechinger ReportIt’s time to rethink how we measure community college success. Commentary: Community colleges joining together for NM successAlbuquerque JournalIn New Mexico, community colleges…
More people with bachelor’s degrees go back to school to learn skilled tradesWashington PostOne in 12 students now at community colleges — or more than 940,000 — previously earned a bachelor’s degree, according to the…