Community Colleges

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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Colleges and lawmakers tout them as a speedway to good jobs. Where’s the data to prove it?

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Officials at Umpqua Community College, in Oregon, took lawyers out of the room and talked about shared interests instead. It worked.

Eastern Gateway Community College is accused of improperly tapping financial-aid dollars to extend a free education to students who did not qualify for the funds.

Three ways to reset and succeed.

The slide began more than a decade ago. The pandemic accelerated it.