As the student success movement has come of age at America's community colleges, much effort has gone into state-level reforms coupled with college-level efforts, on the theory that relying on individual institutions alone to bring change at scale across states and the nation will take too long and cost too much. But if centralized authority is…

The increased difference in tuition and fees between public community colleges and undergraduate institutions has increased significantly since 1950, with changes being most distinct in the past decade. The purpose of the study was to determine the relationship of tuition differential between public institution types (TUDI) to governing entities…