Hillary Clinton says the nation’s first free college tuition plan approved by New York state lawmakers can be a model for other states and can eventually pave the way for nationwide reforms that were championed…
Hammered by budget cuts over nearly a decade, Louisiana’s public colleges are staring down the threat of another round of slashing in a state with one of the least-educated populations in the country. Associated PressCopyright…
In Kentucky, Big Sandy Community and Technical College (BSCTC) met its youngest donor in school history. Eight-month-old Laila Rani Slone Varia joined her family to make a $15,101 donation to the East Kentucky Science Center…
There’s a big string attached to New York’s free middle-class college tuition initiative: Students must stay in the state after graduation or else pay back the benefit. Associated PressCopyright 2018 The Associated Press. All rights…
New York will be the first state to make tuition at public colleges and universities free for middle-class students under a state budget approved by lawmakers Sunday. Associated PressCopyright 2018 The Associated Press. All rights…
The music department at Los Angeles City College (LACC) received scholarship contributions of about $100,000 over the course of a decade starting in the early 2000s from the Herb Alpert Foundation after connecting with Alpert’s…
On March 30, Daniel DeAvila, 24, and Gabriel DeAvila, 21, received a check for $17 from the first customer of U-Labs, the business they proposed this winter for the inaugural Entrepreneurial & Innovation Challenge at…
As Congress prepares to start working on next year’s funding bills, higher education advocates are encouraging lawmakers to preserve federal student aid programs, in particular Pell grants and student loans. Daily StaffCCDaily is published by…
In a role reversal, Democrats in the Washington state legislature want to halt tuition increases at the state’s colleges and universities, while Republicans are proposing modest increases of about 2 percent a year. GOP leaders…
Four Connecticut community colleges — Three Rivers, Manchester, Asnuntuck and Gateway — will benefit from a donation of manufacturing and product design software from Siemens. The gift has an estimated value of $315 million. The…