By Ashley A. Smith. Adtalem Global Education this week announced the results of an independent review of progress on 21 commitments the company made to students on issues of recruitment, enrollment, student outcomes and informed student choice. More...

By Ashley A. Smith. Eight community colleges in the Achieving the Dream network received the Leader College designation Wednesday. More...

By Ashley A. Smith. Alabama will issue manufacturing industry certifications across its two-year college system in an effort to create a better educational pipeline to jobs in manufacturing and transportation. More...

By Ashley A. Smith. Baltimore’s struggling two-year college considers a tuition-free program while undergoing a state-mandated reorganization. But some experts question what level of quality they’re offering students for free. More...

By Ashley A. Smith. The demands on rural community colleges when it comes to keeping students from dropping out extend far beyond academics.
Food, transportation, housing, health care and child care insecurities and lack of access to broadband internet dominated the concerns discussed by college leaders at the Rural Community College Alliance national conference here last week. More...

By Ashley A. Smith. Philanthropy, income-sharing agreements, lottery revenues and children's savings accounts are just a few methods researchers across the country believe can create sustainable tuition-free programs, according to a set of new reports. More...

By Ashley A. Smith. Tens of thousands of people have applied for or expressed interest in New York's free public college tuition program since it was announced earlier this year. And now that the academic year has started and those who qualified for the Excelsior Scholarship have begun classes, some colleges and universities are beginning to see the early effects of the program. More...

By Ashley A. Smith. Community college systems are finding they're under more scrutiny than ever before, especially when it comes to whether their students complete programs and graduate. More...

By Ashley A. Smith. The Connecticut Board of Regents for Higher Education will review a plan Thursday that would place the state's 12 community colleges under one accredited institution, according to the Connecticut Post. More...

By Ashley A. Smith. A new report from the Hamilton Project at Brookings calls for a new grant program to address unmet needs of low-income student-parents. More...