Recession sending more students to comm. colleges

College freshman Elizabeth Hebert's choice of a four-year school suddenly got too expensive. George Haseltine already has a business degree, but he concluded after several layoffs that he needed more training to get work.

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Analysis: Community colleges suddenly in spotlight

Long the neglected stepchildren of American higher education, community colleges have come front-and-center in the eyes of students, policymakers and philanthropists.

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Weak economy spurs growth for community colleges

Two-year community colleges are seeing record enrollment as families squeezed by tough economic times steer high school graduates away from more expensive four-year universities.

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NC community colleges halt illegal immigrant policy

North Carolina's community college system reversed itself Tuesday and said it will no longer admit illegal immigrants until federal officials formally weigh in on whether it is legal.

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Federal loans not an option for many junior college students

For students who need to borrow for college, federal loans are almost always the best deal. But a new study finds that more than 1 million community college students — a disproportionate number of them minorities — can't get such loans because their schools decline to participate in the federal loan program.

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Community Colleges Want More to Graduate

As elite universities debate Congress over how much of their multi-billion-dollar endowments to spend, a new report argues that higher education's heavy-lifters, community colleges, need both more money and better results.

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As classes changed one recent weekday morning at Massasoit Community College in Brockton, the line of cars leaving the campus stretched more than a mile back from the lights on Route 27.

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This week, the fifth annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) — a movement by former President Bill Clinton to bring together businesses, world leaders and a variety of NGO's — is taking place in New York City.

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This article is about the California education system and how the economy is effecting it and the people that utilize it.

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President Obama has been urging Americans to pursue at least one year of education beyond high school. On Tuesday, he unveiled a plan that aims to help more students graduate from community colleges.

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WARREN, Mich. -- In his first appearance in Michigan since the election, President Obama yesterday unveiled a plan he described as the most significant to upgrade and broaden access to community colleges since Harry Truman was president.

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Leaders at Pikes Peak Community College are in shock because of what the college president calls, "catastrophic cuts" in the proposed state budget. As it stands, the plan would cut $8.8 million from the college's funding. That is 49% of PPCC's state aid.

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"The Board of Regents for the Kentucky Community and Technical College system has voted to eliminate tenure for faculty members hired after July 1."

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Olivia Caldwell is a young, single mother who lives in Oakland, a city wracked by unemployment, foreclosures, escalating high school dropout rates, and violent crime. Olivia herself served time for petty theft.

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While tuition is rising and some scholarships are drying up, there are still plenty of ways to go back to college for free, or at least on the cheap.

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Debunking the community college conundrum

"If you don't pull up those grades, you're going to a community college."

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