Erie Community Foundation backs plan for community college YourErie (with video) New York’s Erie Community Foundation backs a plan for a community college and provides funds to create tax-free sustainability. Apple extend programming education program…
Commentary: What community colleges do that universities don’t TIME Beyond creating clear academic pathways for students, setting learning goals and measuring progress, increasing access and support for minority and low-income students, and building a culture…
Grant program could lead to tuition-free 2-year colleges in Montana The Missoulian The idea would be for the funding — donors would receive tax breaks — to either cover the cost of the remaining tuition bill for…
GOP lawmakers reject Walker’s tech college tuition freeze Wisconsin Public Radio News (with audio) Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker called for a two-year tuition freeze at the Wisconsin Technical College System. He also proposed increasing state…
New York college offers 90 percent off tuition for locals Associated Press Students in upstate New York now have the opportunity to take part in a college deal — 90 percent off tuition for attending…
Texas college’s Pathways program to help students focus on graduation, career options Waco Tribune-Herald The program was born out of American Association of Community Colleges research indicating students sometimes take unnatural routes to degrees or…
Free tuition? Tennessee could tutor New York New York Times What Tennessee did exceptionally well was promote the Promise program by emphasizing a simple yet powerful message — free tuition — and gradually winning over…
Cochran plays key role in return of year-round Pell grant program Daily Corinthian (subscription) There has been bipartisan support for reinstatement of year-round Pell grants since they were eliminated, but until now the stars had…
Tuition-free community college to become the norm in Tennessee USA Today Tennessee will become the first state in the nation to offer tuition-free community college to nearly every resident without a degree. Commentary: Community colleges…
Raising grad rates at Indiana’s two-year colleges U.S. News & World Report Indiana has the lowest graduation rate in the U.S., but national experts and the state’s largest community college know how to fix it….