Author: Jason Gonzales Chalkbeat
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Colorado’s farm students might get less college aid due to FAFSA changes
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Colorado students whose families own farms or small businesses might not be able to qualify for federal aid for college under revisions that are meant to simplify the complicated form. The updates to the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, better known as the FAFSA, are the result of a yearslong effort to make the…
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Some Colorado colleges enroll more first-generation students. Should they get more money?
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Colorado colleges and universities would get a special designation if they enroll a high number of students who are the first in their families to go to college, under a bill proposed this year. The largely symbolic bill has fed a bigger debate about how Colorado funds its public colleges. It also spurred a conversation…
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How did Colorado community colleges double their graduation rate? By better meeting student needs
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Colorado’s community colleges more than doubled their graduation rates from 2015 to 2020 by focusing on student support in and out of the classroom, according to a study released Tuesday. The Colorado Community College System’s graduation rates rose to 31% from 15% five years earlier, according to the report by Complete College America that details…
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Chasing Progress: Colorado has big gaps in who finishes college
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Reginaldo Haro-Flores knew finishing college would be an uphill battle. As the first in his family to go to a four-year university, he faced a struggle to pay tuition, buy textbooks and supplies, and balance a job while still helping to support his parents, who questioned the value of a college education. Haro-Flores enrolled at…
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Report outlines pandemic impacts on Colorado students heading to college
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The rate at which Colorado students are going to college right out of high school has dipped, and those who do go are less prepared. And participation in programs offering college experience in high school has remained stagnant. Those takeaways detailed in the state’s recent annual look at the state’s higher education progress offer a…
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Geography no barrier as rural colleges in Colorado expand online offerings
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The state is spending $8.6 million on a new initiative that will let Colorado’s seven rural community colleges share programs and services so students – no matter where they live – get a wider set of educational opportunities. For example, a student at Lamar Community College in eastern Colorado could soon be able to take…
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Rural Colorado students go to college at low rates. Tiny Fowler goes against the trend
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Sisters Shaelea and Ryanna Pruett can rattle off plenty of facts about raising cattle. The Fowler High School graduates know the ideal build for a bull and how to bottle-raise a calf. The sisters could try to make a living on their family ranch tucked between Manzanola and Fowler on Colorado’s southeastern plains. Instead, their…
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As students return, CSU works to help them adjust to campus life during COVID
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A sophomore like Joshua Duran typically would know the ins and outs of Colorado State University by the start of his second year. But as Duran helped sign up students interested in the United Men of Color student organization during this week’s Fall Student Involvement Expo, he found he didn’t know much about the Fort…
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Colorado will allow four-year colleges to grant associates degrees to those who dropped out. Will more students go back for a bachelor’s?
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Over 13,000 Colorado residents have earned more than 70 college credits at four-year state universities in the past five years but stopped short of a degree, according to the Colorado Department of Higher Education. Now, a new Colorado law lets universities award those students with an associate’s degree. Giving students with some college an associate’s…
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How the pandemic continues to shape Colorado students’ college paths
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The upcoming fall semester signals a more-normal experience as colleges turn campus life back on, and for students, as they return to in-person learning. But, over the last year, the pandemic reshaped many people’s college paths. Where they’re picking up now, as they head into the fall of 2021, isn’t necessarily where they once thought…
