Metropolitan Community College

The first lady visited Metropolitan Community College as part of partnership between community colleges and retail pharmacies for vaccine distribution.

Three area community colleges see changes in enrollment for the fall semester. Each has complex considerations in making decisions for its students and staff.

After her mother died of cancer almost ten years ago, Bernadette Esperanza Torres says she experienced an awakening. Her mother was always working, always…

Seventeen-year-old Jasmine Bailey is learning how to install electrical boxes and frame windows, but what she really wants to do is study sharks as a…

When Paloma Ramos dropped out of school in 2014, she was already a year behind her classmates at Southwest Early College Campus.Ramos had a plan, though.…

A Sudanese woman gathered her six grandchildren to explain the family’s 1996 escape to Ethiopia from war-torn Sudan. The children had not yet been born…

Last November, Rep. Barbara Anne Washington became the newest legislator to represent Kansas City in the Missouri General Assembly. An attorney and former…

Kansas City's Metropolitan Community College, like its bigger, four-year counterparts in Missouri, is hoping alternative funding may allow the school to…

What do Kansas Citians expect from higher education? A job that pays well? The chance to learn for the sake of learning ... or something else?As the cost…

Jim Murray will never forget the first time he heard "Study for Strings" by the Czech composer Pavel Haas. It was a performance by the Philadelphia…

Missouri’s 12 community colleges have created a new workforce training network.Until now, community colleges could only work with businesses located in…

For a small group of high school seniors in the metro, their college options are narrowing because of a law passed last year in Jefferson City.…