Fraudsters are engaging in schemes involving fake students registered for community college in California. Up to 20 percent of traffic for online applications is identified as “malicious and bot-related,” leading to one professor to root out fraudulent bot activity throughout the state.
The president spoke at Tidewater Community College in Virginia on Monday, highlighting his plan to raise taxes significantly on corporations, investment income, and Americans making more than $400,000
The president and first lady visited Tidewater Community College to promote his plan for free college education for low-income students.
The Maricopa County Community College District is paying a $155,000 settlement to Scottsdale Community College (SCC) professor Nicholas Damask, whose quiz questions about terrorism offended Muslims.
A monolith appeared this week at Austin Community College in Austin, Texas. The structure is one of several that have been found throughout the world over the past several weeks, although the latest monolith has turned out to be less mysterious than its predecessors.
A U.S. government program is using more than $15 million in taxpayer money to send hundreds of foreign students to community college. Upon completion of the program, the students will “return home with new skills and expertise to help them contribute to the economic growth and development of their country.”
California Gov. Gavin Newsom officially announced Sunday that first-time community college students will be able to attend tuition-free for the first two years.
House Democrats have introduced a bill that would make community colleges free to students, according to a report from the Washington Post.
The California legislature is trying for the seventh time in a row to revive an independent higher education accountability agency defunded by Gov. Jerry Brown’s his first line-item-veto in 2010.
Are four-year colleges any better than community colleges? Americans don’t think so, according to a new Gallup survey that finds 66 percent of respondents rated the quality of community colleges as “excellent” or “good,” while 70 percent rated four-year colleges the same way.
President Barack Obama took his State of the Union on the road yesterday, telling college students in Boise, ID that he will make two years of college “free” and “universal.” What he did not tell them, however, is that he wants to tax 529 savings plans to pay for those two free years of community college–which are already free anyway for poor students, under federal grants.
Last week, President Obama announced an initial proposal to make two years of community college free to any American. “Put simply, what I’d like to do is to see the first two years of community college free for anybody who’s
As the President’s State of the Union speech nears, he is launching trial balloons right and left–mostly left–to see what might prove a hit for his annual night of big policy initiatives. Some of the proposals on deck are cyber security and Internet proposals, two years of “free” community college, and changes in the way people qualify for homeownership.
The White House claimed last week that President Barack Obama’s proposed “free” community college for everyone proposal would cost U.S. taxpayers at least $60 billion over the next 10 years were it to pass. But as the New York Times pointed out on Friday, community college is already tuition-free for millions of students.
