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Survey: Most 2-Year Colleges Lack Resources for Supports

While plenty of programs for first-year students — summer bridge, first-year orientation, first-year student success courses, advising and counseling, learning communities — have found success in four-year colleges and universities, a new study examined the issues two-year schools face in getting students engaged in the campus, staying in school and accumulating credits. The survey, produced […]

Tulsa College Adopts New Advising Model

TULSA — Tulsa Community College has achieved a goal four years in the making — providing one academic adviser for every 350 students. It’s a ratio recommended by national education organizations, but rarely attained on Oklahoma public college campuses. Higher education officials say a number of the state’s colleges either don’t have any academic advisers […]

Ohio Lawmakers Offer Plan to Ease Cost of College

Universal tuition guarantees, tuition rates that vary by the type of degree, and more use of programs to make college quicker to complete are among the recommendations proposed this week by a bipartisan legislative committee. “We’re thinking this report is a road map for the next budget. It was a good process,” said Rep. Mike […]

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Connecticut Students Will Get a Break on Cost of Texts

A new agreement between Connecticut State Colleges and Universities and Follett Higher Education Group is going to help college students save more than $4 million in textbook costs. “I think that’s something that students get very worried about when they hear textbooks and with these negotiations I think students can get a lot less worried […]

California Gambles with New Funding Formula

In her 13 years at San Diego City College, geography professor Lisa Chaddock has been known to care deeply about her students’ success. Her classes are a mix of lectures, field trips, videos and textbook readings so that everyone has an opportunity to grasp the material. After attending a recent forum by San Diego Community […]

1st Generation Transfer Students Face Obstacles

Four years ago, Yousef Moneer decided to leave his homeland of Yemen to live with his family in California and study at Fresno City College. Moneer, a first-generation student who transferred to UC Berkeley this fall, chose to attend community college first because out-of-state tuition was cheaper there than at a four-year university. Moving to a […]

HBCU Hopes $10,000 Degree Pathway Will Win Students

A public university in North Carolina has teamed up with six community colleges to offer a program that promises students they will pay no more than $10,000 out of pocket for their four-year degree. Participating students will attend a two-year college in the state to get their Associate’s degree, then transfer to an online program […]

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Brookings Report: Free College Benefits Unclear

The price of college is rising, making college feel out of reach for a rising share of Americans. Families can borrow to be sure, but with total student loan debt now above $1 trillion nationally, the situation seems unsustainable. Meanwhile, we face a long-term decline in our international ranking on college attainment and the disparities […]

Research: Student Loan Debts Burden 3 Generations

Whether they’re millennials, Gen Xers or boomers, Americans are increasingly weighed down by student loan debt. Not only does it threaten their ability to save for retirement, it’s keeping them from buying homes or cars. According to research from the Association of Young Americans and AARP, student loan debt is exacting a toll on all […]

Oakland Official: Try Tiny Homes for Student Housing Crisis

Arriving with a suitcase, a backpack and a few bags of groceries, Oakland City Councilmember Abel Guillen appeared more ready for a weekend getaway than a press conference — and that’s exactly the point. Guillen was preparing to spend two nights in a “tiny home” erected by Laney College carpentry students in the parking lot […]

Texas Lawmakers Aim to Make Transfers Easier

Many Texas students enroll in community colleges hoping to eventually transfer to a university, but only about 20 percent of them end up doing it. And each year, students spend nearly $60 million in tuition, fees and other costs on excess courses that won’t help them earn a bachelor’s degree. The time wasted and mounting […]

Where Did America’s Dream of Free College Go?

Classrooms full of crying students. That’s how the scene is often described. In November 2005, at Kalamazoo Central High School in Michigan, every classroom was full of teary-eyed students—jubilant, but teary-eyed. They had good reason to be happy. The vice principal had just announced over the P.A. system that anonymous benefactors would be paying the […]

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