community colleges

Research: Five Studies Show Online Learning Not Working at Two-Year Colleges

Newest California study finds students are 11% less likely to pass an online version of the same class. by Jill Barshay Here’s an unusual case where scholarly research is producing a clear conclusion: online instruction at community colleges isn’t working. Yet policymakers are continuing to...

New Study: Adjuncts’ Students More Likely to Drop Courses & Get Lower Grades

Understanding the relative impacts of part-time adjuncts in community colleges is highly policy-relevant, partly because community colleges rely on part-time faculty heavily and partly because community colleges assume a critical.

In Connecticut Community College Merger Plan, Hundreds of Adjuncts Could Lose Jobs

A bold and controversial plan to merge all 12 Connecticut community colleges into one would shrink the system by 217 positions (mostly adjunct faculty) and $23.3 million by 2022, officials.

Guess Who’s Most Likely to Default on Their Student Loans?

Student loan default rates have doubled over the last decade, and new research from Adam Looney of the U.S. Treasury Department and Constantine Yannelis from Stanford University, shows most of the increase is associated with the number of non-traditional borrowers attending for-profit schools and two-year...

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