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A CHAMPION OF UNDERSERVED STUDENTS

In nearly two decades as a community-college leader, Martha J. Kanter (above), nominee for the U.S. Education Department's No. 2 post, has earned acclaim for helping disabled and low-income students graduate. "Educate the top 100 percent," she says. (Photograph by Fred Mertz)

Selected Articles

AFTER THE RAISE, THE SQUEEZE: Faculty pay raises beat inflation in 2008-9, an annual study by the American Association of University Professors has found. So much for the good news.

MISSION CREEP: Some officials of community want to prevent a focus on work-force training from displacing the humanities.

ONE-ON-ONE, AND MANDATORY: A community college devises a program that succeeds in getting students off academic probation.

REDEFINING RETIREMENT: Community colleges anticipate a boom in baby-boom students.

TEACHING MORE WITH LESS: Community-college leaders confront a challenge: Enrollments are up, but money isn't.

LOADS OF LOG-INS: The use of online courses at community colleges continues to grow.

HARD TIMES HIT ANOTHER CAMPUS: An Iowa community college says it will lay off 43 faculty members.

VOCATIONAL AND ADULT EDUCATION: The dean of a community college in Maine will become an assistant secretary of education in the Obama administration.

$6.7-MILLION GRANT: Two higher-education associations announce a U.S.-South African partnership.

$29-MILLION NOT NEARLY ENOUGH: In Washington State, money for college-based retraining programs runs out.

STICK AROUND, WHY DON'T YOU: As more students turn to two-year colleges, more of the colleges build dorms.

BOON OR BOONDOGGLE? A contentious, costly campus expansion gets under way at a community college in Texas.