Like many students taking college courses during the coronavirus pandemic, Alexis Lopez struggled with a poor Wi-Fi connection and professors who didn’t offer much support. This story also appeared in USA Today “They couldn’t really help us. They didn’t really know what to do for us,” said Lopez, who lives in Bastrop, Texas, who remembers […]
Category: Community Colleges
Community colleges enroll nearly half of the country’s students and have never been in greater demand. They are under pressure to move students more quickly through remedial or basic-skills courses that can trap them for years and cause so much frustration that they drop out. And community colleges rely on a range of funding sources and charge tuition that is considerably less than that at other higher-education institutions.