Colorado Community College System

The Colorado Community College System has selected Dr. Colleen Simpson as the new president of Front Range Community College. She will be the first African American to lead the three-campus college when her tenure starts on Aug. 1. She is also the second Black woman president in the statewide college system. KUNC’s Samantha Coetzee spoke to CCCS Chancellor Joe Garcia and Dr. Simpson to talk about the college's next steps.

The Foundation for Colorado Community Colleges recently announced a $1 million investment from a health care industry leader to help diversify the workforce. The Kaiser Permanente Colorado Equity Scholarship Fund will provide financial assistance to students from underrepresented communities.

Angie Paccione, fresh off a weekly call with university presidents across Colorado, summed up the state of higher education in the midst of a pandemic, an…

Caprice Lawless peruses the aisles at the Sister Carmen Community Center and food bank near her home in Louisville. As she draws closer to the produce…

Nathanial Bork was fired from Community College of Aurora in September. He claims it was because he was trying to blow the whistle on what he considered a…

In the 2015 State of the Union, President Barack Obama identified two years of free community college education as a means to help the middle class. It's…

In Colorado, the oil and gas industry employees nearly 30,000 people in the field – and they’re looking for more.Aims Community College has been working…

Colorado’s four-year public colleges will soon be a rarity. That’s because most colleges don’t want to be colleges any more, and are asking the…

Colorado’s community college system could be getting a financial shot in the arm if President Barack Obama has his way. Today the president proposed $8…

Colorado Mountain College, one of the state’s community colleges, announced today plans to offer two types of bachelor’s degrees.Starting this fall, CMC,…