While many areas benefit from a strong network of community college districts, five rural counties - Amador, Alpine, Mariposa, Modoc and Sierra - are left wholly or mostly outside such districts.

Rural counties like Amador and Mariposa lack community college access, limiting educational and economic opportunity. Learn how the CCC can help.

Flathead Valley Community College’s Lincoln County Campus in Libby, pictured on June 28, 2024. Credit: Hunter D’Antuono | Flathead Beacon. According to college leaders, LCC’s success has been grounded ...

Chris Breitmeyer, the former president of Clatsop Community College, has taken on a new role as the president of the Rural Community College Alliance. Breitmeyer spent seven years as the college ...

Experts are increasingly sounding the alarm on community “college deserts” that leave students without readily accessible higher education options. The deserts, locations where high schools ...

Small or rural community college districts often have the lowest levels of participation. If there’s only one candidate for a position, counties typically cancel that race, and the sole ...

Madison College’s regional campuses in Fort Atkinson, Portage, Reedsburg, and Watertown have been honored by The Rural Community College Alliance for innovative and accessible education services ...

Lamar Community College FILE, Lamar Community College, a unit of the Colorado Community Colleges System, located in Lamar, Colo., on Aug. 31, 2013. This story was originally published by Chalkbeat .

Colorado Mountain College has been selected as one of two Colorado rural community colleges to pilot a new student support program as part of a $20 million initiative to improve economic opportunities ...