When Walmart stopped requiring college degrees for most of its corporate jobs last year, the company confronted three deep truths about work and schooling: A college diploma is only a proxy for what ...

Some of the nation’s largest employers, including Walmart and McDonald’s, are now broaching a new frontier in higher education: convincing colleges to give retail and fast-food workers credit for what ...

Art Inzinga, professor and culinary arts program coordinator at the Community College of Allegheny County in Pittsburgh, which is part of an effort to give students credit for their work, military and ...

Three-year bachelor's degrees are gaining traction nationally, but only one Wisconsin university has joined. Advocates say ...

Jan moved to my area about 15 years ago to be closer to family but couldn’t find a job as an office manager, though she’d been one for years. She was a bright, articulate, middle-aged woman with ...

Corpus Christi Independent School District offers early college programs, which allow students to earn college credit and even an associate degree while still in high school. Although not all students ...

More than 40 percent of high school students who earned college credit as part of dual-enrollment programs went on to earn a degree or certificate within four years of graduation, according to new ...

For high school students eager to get a head start on college, early college programs offer an opportunity to earn a diploma and sometimes an associate degree at the same time. More than ...