Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...

This month, Michigan and Massachusetts became the latest states to embrace a broad vision for free community college — a sign of continued growth for a policy that has gone nowhere at the federal ...

Although community colleges offer low tuition, students still face steep costs for essentials such as housing, food, transportation, child care, and supplies—barriers that policymakers must address to ...