This fall, 7.1 percent of the students at Austin Community College (ACC), in Texas, have already earned their bachelor’s degrees. Most of these students are enrolled in technology or health care programs. In fact, 60 percent of the 700 students in the Accelerated Programmer Training (APT), which prepares students to become computer programmers, have bachelor’s […]

Bunker Hill Community College (BHCC) received lots of attention from students and the media in Boston when it began offering midnight classes for second-shift workers who couldn’t attend regular daytime or evening classes. BHCC started the unusual schedule back in 2009, offering general education subjects such as English, math and psychology for 10 semesters over […]

In Learning While Earning: The New Normal, a new report from Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce, the authors conclude that working while learning is now the accepted pathway for both young and mature college students. As the report notes, “For decades, the popular conception of a college student in this country has […]

Earlier this year, the Center for Community College Student Engagement (CCCSE) released Engagement Rising: A Decade of CCSSE Data Shows Improvements Across the Board. Decades of studies by the organization have proved that engagement has increased across all five of the center’s benchmarks: active and collaborative learning, student effort, academic challenge, student-faculty interaction and support […]

As the College Promise Campaign (CPC) works to build widespread support for free community college for all responsible students, community college leaders have raised a number of questions about the effort. Via email, Martha J. Kanter, distinguished visiting professor of higher education at New York University and the director of the CPC, addressed some of […]

As one of the largest community colleges in the country, with 67,000 students annually pursuing more than 100 degrees and certificates, Florida’s Broward College understands how easy it can be for students to feel “barraged” with so many choices, says Joyce Walsh-Portillo, associate vice president of academic affairs. To help, Broward College has redesigned its […]

Onondaga Community College (OCC), in Syracuse, New York, has long been a place that prepares students for transferring to four-year institutions. Part of the State University of New York (SUNY) system, Onondaga has transfer agreements with more than 80 colleges and universities, and more than 60 percent of the college’s students are enrolled in some […]

More Carroll Community College (CCC) students have completed both two- and four-year degrees over a six-year period than the national average, according to research by the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) Research Center. The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center tracked two cohorts at the Westminster, Maryland, school: One began in 2007, and another began in 2008. […]

Fort Scott Community College (FSCC), in Kansas, was recently ranked the best community college of 2015 by SmartAsset, a personal finance advice platform. In 2014, FSCC ranked ninth in the nation. The study was based on high graduation/transfer rate and low student-faculty ratio. What makes this college so remarkable? Affordable tuition, personalized attention and the […]

Jobs for the Future (JFF), with support from the Kresge Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, hopes to improve community college persistence and completion by creating new Student Success Centers (SSC). A request for proposals, due October 9, is expected to result in up to four new centers being announced in December. Up […]