The effort makes two years at a four-year public college, community or trade school free. The program applies to students who have family incomes of $90,000 or less.

In 2020, Garcia launched Bridge to Bachelor’s, which allows students at Colorado’s 13 community colleges to be conditionally admitted to a participating four-year college once they complete ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WCIA) — Governor J.B. Pritzker’s proposal to allow community colleges to offer four-year degrees was revived under a different bill with one week left in the legislative ...

I’ve spent the last decade speaking with learners who have broken out of the traditional four-year college route, and their work-arounds presage the future. Consider the story of Patrick, who used the ...

The latest numbers show that enrollment is starting to recover, but the real growth areas are not for four-year degrees. More than 2.4 million students came to college last fall for certificates ...

Parents tend to favor traditional four-year colleges over non-degree career paths, ... Colorado, in June and decided against college, saying he wanted to go to work right away.

Harper College and other community colleges have renewed a long-sought plan to offer four-year bachelor’s degrees in select fields, but the effort has again stalled in Springfield amid ...

But 38% of Tier 1 college students transferred out of state for a four-year degree compared to only 16% of students not in a university education desert. Future research – and possible solutions ...