Tag: Community College

Inside Higher Ed covers lagging remedial education reforms at California community colleges, despite a state law focused on cutting back these courses. Higher education advocates and frustrated students say remedial education prevents students from completing their degrees and often leaves students financially strained from having to pay more tuition for…

In an opinion essay for the New York Times, David L. Kirp, Professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy at U.C. Berkeley and author of “The College Dropout Scandal,” says data-driven strategies must be implemented at community colleges in order to also achieve higher rates of student retention.  Nicole…

On this week’s Quadcast, we continue our non-consecutive series on College Presidents and Covid-19 with Dr. Pam Eddinger, President of Bunker Hill Community College in Boston. President Eddinger described how the events of this past year have shone light on decades-long disinvestment in the social networks that are critical to…