Access and Affordability

Community colleges in two of California’s biggest cities have announced plans to substantially expand access to public education by offering residents the chance to earn an associate degree for free. While states like Tennessee, Kentucky and Oregon have free community college initiatives, the city of San Francisco’s announcement early this year made it the first […]

Leaders at Marlboro College hope to increase enrollment by 50 percent. At a university such as Ohio State, this would mean adding the population of a small city along with rows of new residence halls and high-tech classrooms.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo made national news when, standing beside senator and former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, he announced in January the most recent in a growing number of free tuition proposals. Coming on the heels of similar proposals by Sanders, presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo, Cuomo’s “Excelsior Scholarship […]

Russ McDonald, head of United Tribes Technical College in Bismarck, North Dakota, is serving on a new federal commission to address the challenges facing Native American children. The group will coordinate child protective services among all state, federal and tribal jurisdictions. McDonald also wants to improve background checks to ensure children are placed in suitable […]

Kate Wing, a senior at Smith College, will soon join the 14 percent. That is, the 14 percent of students who started their postsecondary education in a community college, then transferred to a four-year school and earned a bachelor’s degree within six years of entry. “In general the pathways to transfer are not clear, and […]

International branch campuses continue to offer American colleges and universities opportunities in branding, enrollment and research. And overseas countries, as luck would have it, are often as eager to host as U.S. universities are to set up shop. The number of international branch campuses worldwide—operated by both U.S. and foreign institutions—grew to 249 by the […]