Community colleges filling STEM pipeline
U.S. News & World Report
Community colleges are playing an increasingly important role in providing students the science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM, skills they need for the thousands of jobs employers are having a hard time filling.
Early college program has early success
Gainesville Times
With most of the 126 students at one Florida Early College program taking more than one class and some taking as many as four, 80 percent received a grade of A or B in the 318 courses completed.
Baker, Walsh announce tuition-free college program
Associated Press
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker and Boston Mayor Marty Walsh are announcing a tuition-free college program.
Commentary: Why free community-college tuition makes sense
Arizona Daily Star
Almost 40 community college districts across the country have adopted some form of free tuition offers to responsible students who meet minimum requirements.
Free community college tuition? The idea is spreading across Southern California
Press-Enterprise
Long Beach has become a model for free tuition programs, which are spreading rapidly across Southern California community colleges and the state.
Breaking barriers — from limited English skills to honors graduate
Bowling Green Daily News
Khawl Nuam was 12 when her family moved to Ohio after leaving their native Myanmar. She now will enroll at Southcentral Kentucky Community and Technical College, with the aim of eventually transferring to Western Kentucky University and studying to become a pediatrician.
