Community Colleges

Grand Rapids Community College may have found a novel way to help more students pass developmental education classes: Speed them up.

Thousands of degree seekers are able to enroll in only one class at a time. Hopes of graduating or transferring wither as years pass.

Calhoun Community College has received $500,000 to benefit disadvantaged students in the nursing program.

Even as enrollment grows at their four-year counterparts, many community colleges in Oklahoma are seeing their projected enrollments decline.

The new chancellor acknowledges the financial stresses facing the 112-campus system but says 'the best days are ahead of us.'

Three Rivers Systems Inc. is demonstrating CAMS® Enterprise, the disruptive technology choice for academic management at the Rural Community College Alliance annual meeting this week in Dubuque, Iowa. A disruptive technology is an innovation creating a new market that “disrupts” an existing one by displacing earlier technology.

California's largest community college responds to findings this summer by an accrediting commission that placed its future in jeopardy.

In 2011, when Gov. Rick Perry issued an executive order establishing WGU Texas, a state-approved subsidiary of Western Governors University, a national, nonprofit online university, many of the state's top higher education officials heralded its competency-based approach to student advancement.

After six years of post-Katrina growth, in which its enrollment surged by more than 74 percent, Delgado Community College reported an 11.4 percent drop in the number of full-time students who registered for the fall semester.

Approximately 11 percent fewer students are taking classes at Jackson Community College this fall compared to a year ago, according to enrollment figures released last week.