higher education

More than a year of mudslinging between the higher education systems has led to delays and anger over the issue of awarding bachelor’s degrees at community colleges. Legislators, frustrated by the lack of progress, are getting involved.

Many college students rely on federal student aid to cover expenses, but increasingly complicated laws and poor communication have made those dollars harder to come by for some adult students.

According to the Oregon Education Association, part-time community college instructors are paid roughly half as much as their full-time counterparts on average.

Enrollment is down at the University of California and the Cal State, which has frustrated lawmakers who gave both systems more money to increase their number of students.

Most college students don’t qualify for CalFresh, California’s food stamps program, despite high rates of food insecurity. A pandemic-era rule that made it easier to get aid ends soon.

Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek is proposing a budget that represents an historic high in school funding during a time of historic need. But some K-12 and higher education experts argue it isn’t enough.

Over the next five months, legislators in Oregon will consider more than 100 proposals that could impact hundreds of thousands of students statewide.

A legislative committee learned many incoming students aren’t ready for college-level work.

Cal State leaders revealed a new plan that will take money from campuses missing enrollment targets and give it to schools exceeding their targets.

The program will include Shasta College in Redding, College of the Redwoods in Eureka, College of the Siskiyous in Weed and more than 60 others across California. It's an effort to increase the number of students who successfully transfer from those colleges.

Some California colleges are responding to campus sexual assault and harassment with restorative justice: a process that brings together the student who was harmed, the person who harmed them and the community to seek solutions.

Mandatory medical insurance and health service fees are common at colleges as a condition of enrollment. For parents, these big payments might come as a surprise, making a barely affordable education feel even less so.