Colleges try to speed up pace at which students earn degrees

By Jon Marcus. New programs try to reverse the trend of higher education taking longer.
In the year since they graduated together, Daranie Ounchaidee still runs into a lot of her friends from high school. After all, they ended up commuting to the same community college, where those classmates stopped to commiserate in the corridors about the twists, turns, and missteps they’d already taken on their paths to associate’s degrees. More...