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One Last Cut?
Tuition-free community college is presumed to be on the chopping block in President Biden’s Build Back Better Act, but there are still ways that lawmakers can lower the cost of the program without scrapping it completely.
4-Year Degrees for California’s 2-Year Colleges
Community college leaders celebrated new legislation allowing their institutions to offer more four-year degrees. The measure is also a win for the national community college baccalaureate movement.
The Campus Kiddie Ban
Columbia College Chicago says children can’t be in the classroom and otherwise need advance permission to be on campus -- for no more than an hour. Faculty, staff and student leaders are united in their opposition to the policy.
Law on Transfer Process Sparks Controversy
The California law promises to streamline the transfer process for community college students. College leaders and faculty members are skeptical.
‘Businessweek’ M.B.A. Rankings Questioned
Poets & Quants publishes critique by deputy dean at Yale.
Opinion
Reading ‘The State Must Provide’ Through a DE&I Lens
Why every educator should read this excellent new book about the history and impact of America’s HBCUs.
‘Demographics Are Not Destiny’
A new report examines how much control community colleges have over former students’ wages and their ability to pay off loans postcollege.
‘Playing Long Ball’
New initiative to help HBCUs enhance career readiness and leadership development for students is a welcome development for Black college leaders, who say such philanthropic partnerships will yield better results than one-time infusions of cash.