Why a common number system is elusive A new effort is underway to create a broad new system to number community college courses that would be accessible and easily understandable to all students.

Some colleges are still offering half or the majority of their classes online in response to student demand. East Los Angeles College, the most populous campus in the California Community College ...

The previous practice of only counting students in online classes who were enrolled at the time of IPEDS’s annual fall census understated the true number of distance education learners, Hill said.