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No Shame in Our Game
Stop maligning community colleges, writes Susan Muaddi Darraj, and treating their students and faculty members as not as good as their peers.
Boosting Aid With a Tax on Business
Washington State's new scholarship program, which will help make college free for thousands of students, will be funded by a tax on businesses that need highly skilled and educated employees.
New Programs: Fine Arts, Counseling, Robotics, Theater Education, Health Informatics, Management and Technology, Homeland Security, Sustainability, Technical Art History
Augustana University, in South Dakota, is starting a bachelor of fine arts program. Cazenovia College is starting a master's program...
Study Finds More Low-Income Students Attending College
A new report claims more poor students than ever are enrolling in the nation's colleges and universities, but a disproportionate number are attending less selective or open-access institutions, which may hinder their chances for success.
Failure to Launch
A new report explains how and why a public-private partnership that sought to help more community college students transfer to selective universities failed.
Boost for Community Colleges Means 1-Year Bust for Universities
New analysis of Oregon Promise tuition-free scholarship program found that it increased community college enrollment but decreased enrollment at four-year institutions in the first year, and that fewer first-generation and low-income students benefited financially than expected.
Uproar Over Anti-Immigrant Memes
Despite calls to step down, the board president of a two-year college in Illinois is refusing to resign after posting several Islamophobic and anti-immigrant memes on social media.
Paying for Students to Move
The largest technical college in Kansas is paying relocation and housing costs for students to move to the area, many from other states, to deal with a work-force shortage in the local aviation industry.