Los Angeles — The three petite, soft-spoken Latinas are all friends. They graduated from Grant High School here, are on one another’s speed dial and share a preference for electric blue. And all three are stuck in basic-skills courses at Los Angeles Valley College after bombing their college placement exams, in part because they had [...]

10.4.10 – Carla Rivera, Los Angeles Times Enrollment in California's colleges has surged, but budget cuts leave many students unable to get the courses they need, meaning it'll take them longer to earn a degree and join the workforce.

Mary Ann Prado of Minneapolis Community and Technical College helps students handle some of the perhaps less typical challenges of college life: homelessness and hunger.

Michigan lawmakers are considering a measure that could significantly boost enrollment numbers at community colleges.  A bill currently before the Senate would allow traditionally two-year schools to offer a wider [...]

9.21.10 – Guatemalan teen entered high school with a sixth-grade education and a grown man's burdens.

9.16.10 – BOSTON, MA – While some states have moved toward adopting comprehensive dropout prevention and recovery policies in recent years, few have policies in place to ensure that former dropouts get on a path to postsecondary success.

9.16.10 – David Moltz – For many community colleges around the country this fall semester, the song remains the same. Yet again, enrollments are at an all-time high, and waiting lists for classes remain long, but the search continues for ways to accommodate the growing demand.

9.11.10 – Here's one more sign that community colleges don't get respect. I waited two weeks after the publication of the Washington Monthly's new ranked list of these overlooked schools before I bestirred myself to write this column. For someone whose family history is entwined with community colleges, that's bad.

8.31.10 = Community colleges sued over non-citizen hiring practices. The U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against the Maricopa County Community College District on Monday, accusing it of discrimination for requiring extra paperwork from new employees who were not U.S. citizens.

8.26.10 – The state's community college system cancels agreement allowing students to take courses at the private online school, because they would not be transferrable to UC or Cal State campuses.

8.20.10 – The San Diego Community College District’s governing board adopted its 2010-11 budget on Thursday, a spending plan that will start to reverse a two-year trend of cutting classes.

8.14.10 – Chicago's plan to set admissions standards for community colleges, in part to rein in remedial classes, may be a sign of things to come, experts say.

8.14.10 – Sarah Butrymowicz – It was Michael Rosa’s third day of Spanish at Hostos Community College in New York City, even though he was just 14. Rosa got into a shouting match with his professor. It happened so often in those days that he doesn’t remember what this particular fight was about – only that he refused to leave the classroom.

8.13.10 – When the first community colleges sought permission to offer four-year degrees, they generally said that it would only be one or two programs — nothing dramatic. But in Florida, where the community college baccalaureate movement is strongest, community colleges now offer more than 100 four-year degrees, and the figure could be about to jump significantly.

8.8.10 – Tuition will go up an average of 4.4 percent at the state's 19 two-year schools. Above, County College of Morris

8.2.10 – Trustee and former chairman are investigated over construction. Houston Community College is investigating a former chairman of the board and at least one trustee for possible conflicts of interest with construction companies that got jobs in the district.

With President Barack Obama setting a goal of producing 5 million more community college graduates in the next decade, it seems community colleges are finally having their moment.

Gurgaon got its first community college in Naya Gaon village in Sohna region. Registered with Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) under its Community College Scheme, the Navjyoti Community College offers structured courses with 'credit system'. The courses include English language speaking,

The list of courses available through Fort Scott Community College's Community Education program just got bigger. The Maximized Individual Learning Laboratory (M.I.L.L) will start a new program this fall that is the result of a partnership between FSCC and Ed2Go, an online adult and continuing education provider, to offer a wider variety of courses in the FSCC Community Education program.

By David Moltz, Inside Higher Ed Community colleges across the country are responding to the call by many education experts to get the lead out and …

Coming one day after President Barack Obama called on Congress to reform the country’s “broken” immigration system, immigrants from 55 different countries gathered inside a gymnasium at South Mountain Community College Friday.