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Distance Ed Continues Rapid Growth at Community Colleges

While Blackboard dominates course-management market at 2-year colleges, more institutions are looking elsewhere.

Reaching Out to Students in Foster Care

Community colleges consider how they can enroll and graduate a particularly vulnerable population.

Predicting and Preventing Campus Violence

Experts in the field gather at Columbia University to discuss school shooters, student suicides and the law, among other topics.

The Foundations of General Education

A college's new curriculum is designed for the much-changed student population it now serves -- largely low-income, minority "urban learners" (for lack, but not of trying, of a better term).

A Plan to Send Engineering Students Abroad

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will become one of the few science-centric institutions to expect study-abroad experience from all its students.

Key Lawmakers Plan for Student Loan Credit Crunch

As another leading lender leaves the federal program, lawmakers propose mix of increased Pell Grants, raised limits on federal loans, and offer of U.S. support for lenders struggling to raise capital.

What Is a Composition and Rhetoric Doctorate?

Data show stability in number of programs and enrollments, but continued shifts in what programs are called, reflecting tensions within the field over its role and whether it is a single field.