Last month, first-year students completed the college's first mandatory class on AI, a two day intensive course that culminated with a hands-on project.
Colleges are feeling the pressure to innovate their credentials. Quality and innovation can coexist as colleges work quickly to reshape degrees, a major accreditor says.
More recent high school graduates are choosing community college as students look for lower-cost, career-focused alternatives to four-year degrees. New data shows younger students now make up the largest share of first-time associate degree earners.
The Department of Education proposed a new rule stripping federal loan eligibility from undergraduate programs that fail to provide graduates with higher earnings than a high school graduate.
A federal investigation is making it harder for colleges to track and improve student voting efforts on campus. College leaders say the warning is creating funding fears ahead of a major election year.
Colleges often use merit aid to compete for students who appear able to pay full tuition, but limited data has made it hard to show how often that happens. This report examines how widespread the practice has become across different types of institutions.
