Institutions

Most classes are still remote at Hagerstown Community College, but staff and faculty have had VPN access revoked and must now return to campus to work.

College enrollments declined sharply this summer among Black undergraduates and men, and at community colleges and rural institutions, raising worries about the fall and worsening equity gaps.

They worry Democratic control over the White House and Senate will bring a return of Obama administration policies. Many are donating to Republicans to keep it from happening.

Doing so expands access and opportunity in the short term but creates a two-tiered society that reinforces equity gaps over the long haul, writes Melanie Ho.

Speakers at the Republican National Convention pointed to President Trump's support for historically Black colleges and universities, but some see it as just show.

Cabrillo College will begin its fall semester squeezed by two threats: a wildfire and a pandemic.

Even before the pandemic, reformers failed to make major curriculum reform in community colleges a priority, writes Terry U. O'Banion, who offers a new paradigm.