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2-Year Colleges Increasingly Enhancing First-Year Experience

New report highlights the different methods and ways community colleges offer first-year experience programs to students.

Free-College Realities

Proposals for tuition-free college programs shift to meet the needs of the state while also exhibiting qualities of more successful existing initiatives.

Multiple Measurements to Predict Success

Going beyond placement exams allows more community college students to take and pass gateway math and English courses, but some worry about students who need remediation.

Summer Gains in Alamo

A Texas community college system has had some success offering free summer courses to encourage students to pursue full-time status, but questions remain about why more students aren't taking up the offer.
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Building Community for Part-Time Students

Officials at Boston’s Bunker Hill Community College are finding that students are more likely to re-enroll in learning communities that offer mentors and additional advising.

Tens of Thousands of Adults Line Up for Free College in Tennessee

Tennessee's tuition-free community college program is proving popular with adults.

Cuts to Liberal Arts at Goucher

College says it's eliminating programs such as math, physics and religion, in attempt to keep costs down.

Turning Day-Care Workers Into Degreed Early-Ed Teachers

Large childcare provider offers free tuition for day care center workers to pursue degrees in early childhood education -- with strings attached.