Faced with increasing financial aid fraud, the board of California’s community colleges is considering ways to charge students an application fee and tighten its identity verification process.

Scammers stole more than $10 million in financial aid last year by fraudulently enrolling in California's community colleges. State and federal officials are working to combat the rising fraud.

Community college students aren't happy California students attended the community colleges board meeting to protest the application fees, many of whom understood the need to shake the fraud, but ...

Faced with an ongoing swell of fraudulent applications and enrollments, the California Community College system is hotly debating what to do next to win their battle against bot “students” for good.

Ghost” student scams have been an increasing problem in Maryland and across the country and imperil student aid coffers, ...

Community colleges saw a 17% drop in enrollment during the pandemic, state numbers show. Santa Ana College appears to have been hit particularly hard with a decrease twice that of the state ...

Application fee delayed California’s community colleges have a mission to serve every Californian and they’re funded primarily based on the number of students they enroll. When applying ...

At a meeting on Tuesday, the board that oversees California's community colleges voted to require all students to verify their identity, which is currently optional for most applicants. The board ...