The decisions, professors and students say, could make it harder for some students to graduate.
Community College
Posted inIndianapolis
Debt with no degree: Indy student loan borrowers who don’t graduate face unique challenges
A third of Hoosier students won’t finish degrees in six years. What does that mean for their student debt?
Posted inCalifornia
This community college has 1 full-time Black faculty member out of 165. Why campuses struggle with diversity
“Progress remains slow,” according to a recent report on faculty diversity at California’s community colleges. For Nikia Chaney, the sole full-time Black faculty member at Cabrillo College, the experience is personal.
Posted inTexas
A new way to fund Texas community colleges focuses on student success, not enrollment
A historic $683 million investment in community colleges rewards schools for getting students to complete a degree or certificate, transfer to a four-year university or participate in college courses as early as high school.
Posted inIndianapolis
Here’s why Butler University is launching an associate’s degree program
A successful model from a Chicago university is showing what’s possible in Indiana, where the college-going rate is struggling.
Posted inEl Paso
EPCC launches Family College to benefit two generations of students
Michelle Soto knows how difficult it can be to find affordable child care. The married mother of three young children, ages 7, 6 and almost 2, juggles her family responsibilities with math and writing classes at El Paso Community College to strengthen the English skills she will need to pursue her Associate of Applied Science […]
Posted inTexas
These rural Texans opted out of a degree. The community college down the street wants them back.
VERNON — The sun was not out yet but, across the street from the town’s community college, order numbers were already piling in on the display monitor above Nikki Murray. The McDonald’s cashier slipped in one-liners with waiting customers while she wrapped their Egg McMuffin breakfast sandwiches. Her grin was contagious. She tried to ignore […]
Posted inCalifornia
Fewer undocumented students have DACA. California’s colleges want to help, even if the options are limited
Most undocumented college students in California are not eligible for DACA anymore, creating new dilemmas for students and colleges around employment, financial aid and the threat of deportation.
Posted inTexas
Jury rules against Texas professor who claimed suburban community college retaliated against him for political speech
A jury has rejected a former Collin College professor’s claim that the North Texas school violated his First Amendment rights by not renewing his contract after it expired at the end of the 2022 school year. History professor Michael Phillips claimed in a lawsuit filed last year that school leaders retaliated against him for speaking […]
Posted inCalifornia
Community college enrollment plummeted during the pandemic. Here’s one reason why it’s now turning around
California’s community colleges are seeing enrollment gains for the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Older students — those over 50 — are some of the first to return.