Oregon Coast Community College in Newport has been approved to offer its own four-year accredited degree in nursing. The ...

Passed by the state Legislature in 2019 and effective as of New Year’s Day, Senate Bill 3 allows community colleges to offer four-year degrees, with a couple caveats.

A recent analysis of Oregon’s tuition-free community college scholarship found that the program helped increase enrollment at the state’s two-year colleges but shifted students away from public ...