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 schools are a little more challenging in terms of just exposure. Most students go to school about 50 miles from college. They don’t go far-flung places, and there are less opportunities in the ...

The college has launched an initiative to introduce village youths to skill development courses, aiming to foster curiosity and ambition among the youths and bridge the gap between rural talent ...

For any student, the thought of college can be scary. It is a life-changing experience. That is why, for a rural student, it can be even more of a daunting thought. It’s hard to leave family ...

The Rural Early College Network is part of a $10 million Education Innovation and Research (EIR) grant from the U.S. Department of Education. Through RECN 2.0, CELL will help rural high schools in ...

For the most part, early college opportunities have not existed for students in rural Massachusetts. Students in these three rural communities are the first cohort to take early college courses ...

Duke joined 31 other elite institutions in the Small Town And Rural Students College Network, an organization that aims to support students from rural areas through their college admissions ...

Yuba College President Dr. Tawny Dotson has been appointed to the National Commission on Small and Rural Colleges by the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC). Her term on the ...

This growing interest is a recognition of the fact that although federal data shows 90 percent of students from rural regions graduate from high school, only about half go directly to college, ...

Just as in urban areas, rural colleges tend to make their name with certain thriving programs. He notes that Alpena College made its mark with utility pole climbing and concrete technology programs, ...

In order to best help these institutions, it’s important to have a better understanding of who they are. This is the story of what counts as a rural college.