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Report: Outdated Funding Law Hampers Community College Student Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

California's community colleges find themselves caught in a 60-year-old funding constraint that increasingly hampers their ability to serve todays students, according to a new report from the Community College League of California. In 1961, college students were predominantly white, traditional-age students who attended full-time.

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Study Shows Limit to Benefits of Online Classes for Community College Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

After the COVID-19 pandemic forced an emergency switch to online learning, students have embraced the modality for its flexibility and convenience. This is particularly true of community college students, who are more likely than others to have jobs and family commitments that make coming to a campus tough.

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Alabama Community Colleges See Highest Enrollments in a Decade

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“This enrollment achievement reflects the growing recognition of the critical role that community colleges play in providing accessible, affordable, and high-quality education to students from all walks of life,” said Jimmy H. Baker, chancellor of the Alabama Community College System.

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Updated College Scorecard Data Shed New Light on Student Earnings, Borrower Repayment Outcomes, Campus Diversity, and More  

IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

Department of Education (ED) announced a series of updates to its College Scorecard —a free online resource designed to help prospective college students compare institutions using data such as tuition costs, graduation rates, and post-college earnings.

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How to Best Support Students Struggling with Online Learning

Good Tutors Finder

How to Best Support Students Struggling with Online Learning. Some students have taken to online learning like fish to water. While you can’t solve every online learning challenge, there are ways that you can support and help your students struggling with online learning to be more successful.

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Strategies for Success in Online Learning

Purdue University Global

Hello everyone, and welcome to the Academic Success Resource Center and Blog. I’m Michele Paulsen, lead tutor of the Math Center, and I’m here with tutor Melinda Hall to discuss strategies for success in online learning. Melinda, it seems like more and more students are enrolling in online courses (Peck et al.,

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Supporting Non-Traditional Paths to Student Success

Scholarship America

Picture “a college student.” Just how many non-traditional students are there? Just how many non-traditional students are there? While we still tend to think of traditional college students as the “default,” the fact is more than half of all college attendees fall into one or more “non-traditional” categories.