The day a student uses their phone to access a residence hall, get a meal, or make a purchase is the day the system is fully public. There is no quiet rollout.
Here are three ways that this network of small, embedded community colleges is dramatically improving bachelor's completion for first-generation students.
Seven years after Kentucky replaced remedial education with a statewide corequisite model, the state's students are progressing farther and faster through college.
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.
Colleges and states are stepping up efforts to help millions of former students return and finish their degrees, but financial and personal barriers continue to keep many from the credential they once set out to earn.