Community Colleges
How California community colleges are using AI to battle financial aid fraud
Sierra Community College in Rocklin. Credit: Sierra College / Flickr Top Takeaways California’s community colleges reported distributing $18 million in […]
September 2, 2025
Journalist chooses community college over grad school
Mt. San Antonio College Credit: Mt. San Antonio College I recently completed my undergraduate degree in journalism, with a focus […]
August 4, 2025
Fear and resilience: Transgender students express concerns over Trump’s anti-trans policies
When advertising student Ember Young first arrived on the University of San Francisco’s campus as a freshman, they still identified […]
July 23, 2025
Inland Empire confronts obstacles to sending students to college
Barstow Community College is about 70 miles away from the closest CSU campus, Cal State San Bernardino. Credit: Julie Leopo […]
July 22, 2025
As feds plan new measures to prevent financial aid fraud, colleges hope real students still enroll
Top Takeaways California’s community colleges have disbursed $14 million and likely much more in financial aid to fraudsters. The U.S. […]
July 3, 2025
Community college adjunct professors optimistic as two lawsuits over pay progress
A pair of recent court decisions may bode well for the state’s part-time community college professors, known as adjuncts, who […]
June 18, 2025
‘Serving adult learners’: California community colleges are expanding short-term career programs
Top Takeaways Short-term vocational certificates, especially those in health fields, are growing across community colleges. At Mt. San Antonio College, […]
June 4, 2025
Visa uncertainty hits California community colleges’ international students
Top Takeaways About 14,000 international students attend California’s community colleges, many of them in the Bay Area. Community colleges charge […]
May 1, 2025
At community colleges, online classes remain popular years after pandemic
Ricardo Alcaraz is taking three of his five courses online this semester at Santa Ana College: an anthropology class, business […]
March 25, 2025