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California community college enrollment slid 15% in 2020-21, new data shows
Total enrollment in the California Community Colleges system fell an estimated 15% year over year in 2020-21, representing an overall decline of about 319,000 students, a system representative told state lawmakers this week.
How Congress can move the needle on college completion
A proposed College Completion Fund draws backing as researchers say wraparound support programs are the best way to help students earn degrees.
Virtual work is here to stay. Here's how colleges can help students land remote internships.
The pandemic disrupted the world of work — and internships. But colleges and employers responded by trying new strategies online.
Median lifetime earnings rise with each additional level of education, report finds
Workers' median earnings rise with each additional level of education, according to a new report from Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce, bolstering previous research showing degrees tend to pay off in the job market.
College Board announces easier CSS Profile, plus a 'lighter, shorter' version
Students from families earning up to $100,000 will now be able to freely apply to the College Board's CSS Profile, a tool used by some 300 colleges to award students institutional financial aid packages.
Far fewer prospective college students submitted admissions test scores last year, report finds
Only about two-fifths of students who applied to college during the 2020-21 school year using the Common Application included their SAT or ACT scores, a sharp decline from the prior year, when more than three-fourths of college prospects did so.
Nearly 200,000 fewer transfer students enrolled in college last year, report finds
Colleges and universities lost about 191,500 transfer students in the 2020-21 academic year — representing a loss almost three times greater than the previous year's decline of 69,300 students, according to new data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.
Course-sharing platform Acadeum launches dual-enrollment offering for high school students
Acadeum, an online course-sharing platform for higher education institutions, announced this week it's launching a new dual-enrollment offering that will provide more than 500 college-level classes to eligible high school students.
Over two-thirds of bachelor's-granting colleges won't require SAT, ACT for fall 2022
More than two-thirds of bachelor's degree-granting colleges won't require SAT and ACT scores for at least some students for the fall 2022 admissions cycle, according to the latest count by FairTest.