BOSTON — With a new academic year nearing, community colleges are tentatively moving forward with plans to help students 25 and older attend for free even though the program has
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MassBay Community College and Framingham High School have launched an automotive technology summer boot camp to help strengthen the pipeline of trained technicians. The boot camp, which is funded through the MassGrad and MassHire grants, will provide 25 recent Framingham High graduates and rising junior and senior students the opportunity to engage in a three-week
The state’s community colleges have had steep, decades-long enrollment drops. Their leaders believe a proposed free college program for adult learners can help turn trends around. Massachusetts community colleges have been battered by a confluence of headwinds: a rapidly declining population of traditional college-age residents, a global pandemic, an economy replete with well-paying jobs that don’t require degrees, and rising costs of living.