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Set a few miles from the sea and surrounded by swampy state parks, Indian River Community College was for years a lone outpost of higher education on Florida’s Treasure Coast. The nearest university—Florida Atlantic—was nearly 60 miles away, a long haul down I-95 for someone seeking more schooling but bound to her community by a home, a job, a family. “To drive an hour-and-a-half one way to take a course at a university at night and back—it was just more than most fami...

By NICK ANDERSON AND DANIELLE DOUGLAS-GABRIEL | The Washington Post | Published: March 2, 2021 Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See more staff and wire stories here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. CRANFORD, N.J. — As her chemistry laboratory got rolling here one winter morning, with masked students taking their stations at a pandemic-safe distance, community coll...

Unsung public colleges, crucial for the economy, are high on the Biden administration’s agenda.