by Max Zimbert

Nineteen-year-old Nancy Fernandez is in her second year at Glendale Community College, but once she gets her degree, there'll be no where to go for her to go.

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by Bill Crawford

FOLKS AT community colleges think they get the short end of the stick in Mississippi education funding. Let's take a look.

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by Renee Busby, Al.com

The White House is having an Oct. 5 summit on two-year colleges and is working to highlight stories of students sharing their experiences.

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by Stephen J. Handel, Houston Chronicle

In the last 18 months, education leaders have made important progress in helping students who wish to transfer from community colleges to four-year institutions.

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by Daniel de Vise, Washington Post

A Community College Transfer Initiative launched four years ago by the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation greatly increased the volume of students transferring from community colleges to eight selective four-year colleges.

By supporting the transfer process at receiving schools, the initiative dramatically boosted community college transfers to some of the nation's most prestigious schools: Amherst College, Bucknell University, Cornell University, Mount Holyoke College, the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Michigan, the University of North Carolina and the University of Southern California. A report on the Initiative, "Partnerships that Promote Success," was released this month.

Among the eight schools, the initiative yielded 550 transfers in the 2007-08 academic year. By 2009-10, transfer enrollment had risen to 1,723.

The University of Michigan enrolled 1,104 community college transfers as of 2009-10; Mount Holyoke, 275; Berkeley, 245; Cornell, 113.