We’re spending this year talking with Californians about their experiences with college. What really gets in their way? What, or who, keeps them going?
Enrollment
Posted inCalifornia
Who’s missing from California’s community colleges?
California’s community college enrollment plummeted during the pandemic. Here are the stories of some of the students who left.
Posted inColorado
A Denver scholarship foundation wanted to know how to help Hispanic men get to college. Here’s what it found.
Students who never went to college heard early in their lives that they didn’t have the money to go. No one told them that they could thrive academically.
Posted inOhio
Will colleges’ test-optional policy continue post-pandemic?
All five of Cleveland’s higher education institutions — that’s CWRU, Cleveland State University, the Cleveland Institute of Art, the Cleveland Institute of Music, and Cuyahoga Community College — don’t currently require applicants to submit standardized test scores.
Posted inOhio
Better transfer routes between private and community colleges an underutilized path to equity
It’s one way to try to improve bachelor’s degree attainment rates at scale, the authors of a new report say.
Posted inColorado
A lot of love for concurrent enrollment, less love for free college
Colorado lawmakers have several proposals aimed at growing these programs. The theme I’ve heard is that we want to blur the line as a state between high school and college.
Posted inPittsburgh
CCAC’s enrollment dropped during the pandemic. What could this mean for Allegheny County?
More than nine in 10 of graduates of the Community College of Allegheny County go on to live and work locally, but thousands fewer students have enrolled during the pandemic.
Posted inThe Dispatch
Is college admissions broken? Or working exactly as intended?
The “reputational model” of higher ed is based on a fundamental preoccupation with exclusivity, a new report says, and colleges must examine the consequences.
Posted inThe Dispatch
A stressed value proposition
In Indiana, one big challenge — even before the pandemic — has been a steady decline in college-going rates. Barely half of the state’s male high-school graduates do.
Posted inOhio
Fall enrollment drops for majority of Northeast Ohio colleges
An analysis of the 26 higher-education institutions in the Crain’s colleges and universities full digital list saw about a 3.8% decrease in combined undergraduate and graduate full-time equivalent enrollment since the same period in 2020.