Community Colleges

Murder, a bomb threat and a student with an assault weapon.

A Sacramento City College center in Davis that is the first community college on a University of California campus is set to open its doors to students on Saturday.

College costs are rising. Student debt is mounting. And most Americans say college fails to deliver good values.

Over the objections of angry college students and worried faculty members, California community college leaders voted Monday to support a systemwide overhaul that could end many free classes for older adults and squeeze out students who fail to move quickly through the system.

North Carolina is picking up much of the cost. It is paying about $1 million to help nearly 400 workers acquire these skills, and a community college has committed to develop a custom curriculum that Caterpillar has valued at about $4.3 million.

Grand Rapids Community College would save about $250,000 by moving its possible tax increase request to August or November, instead of the recommended May election date, Kent County Clerk Mary Hollinrake said.

Delgado Community College is one of the country's fastest-growing two-year colleges of its size, according to a survey in Community College Week. Among community colleges with at least 10,000 students, Delgado ranked eighth in growth, with a 13 percent jump between fall 2009 and fall 2010. The enrollment rose from 16,618 to 18,767.

A group of more than 100 leaders in higher education met at MSU today. They worked to brainstorm new names for Montana's colleges of technology and ways they could re-brand all of Montana's two-year education institutions.

The mother of a former biology professor has left $419,000 to the Women's Center of Tidewater Community College, officials announced Monday.

The two-year school received the prize money from the nonprofit Aspen Institute at an event Monday in the nation's capital.