Community Colleges

A community-college group wants to add Head Start sites to many campuses, giving student parents free child care and helping them stay enrolled.

That extra support for higher ed is set to run out in a few months, leaving college leaders with some tough decisions.

Two-year institutions had 13 percent fewer employees in 2022 than in 2020, a new analysis shows.

At a recent conference, trustees talked about overhauling recruitment to bring back disaffected students.

Twenty-nine percent were food-insecure, and 14 percent were housing-insecure, according to the Center for Community College Student Engagement.

When public transit is limited, students can be “one flat tire away from dropping out.” An unusual program is chipping away at the problem.

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