JavaFX isn't hard to learn. In fact, any developer with a little bit of object-oriented knowledge and a penchant for desktop development in Java can quickly put together a feature-rich GUI application ...

The toughest thing about building Maven projects in Eclipse is simply getting started. After that, Java development in Eclipse becomes decidedly simpler. That's because once a Maven project is created ...

Editor’s note: This article has been updated on April 14 at 10:29 a.m. to include comments from Commissioner of Higher Education Noe Ortega. After years of financial and enrollment difficulties, ...

After years of challenges punctuated by a rapid financial decline, Hampshire College will close. The private college in Massachusetts fended off closure several years ago, but it will finally shutter ...

Other small private colleges like Hampshire have closed in recent years as financial pressures and competition for students increase. By Mark Arsenault Hampshire College, a small liberal arts school ...

Just before sunrise on a Tuesday in March, A.G., a Valencia College student, got into his car outside his east Orange County apartment to head to his job as a maintenance worker. Before he backed out ...

More high school graduates are considering community college over a four-year school, recent studies show. For the first time, students aged 18 to 20 represented the largest share of first-time ...

John Cox, the president of Cape Cod Community College from 2012 until he abruptly retired in mid-March, had an unprofessional relationship with a 23-year-old female student whom he sought to mentor, ...

When I attended Hampshire College in the early 2000s, a running joke among students was that the school was about to go bust: that it had run out of funding, lost its accreditation, or been sold to ...

One day after the NCAA Division I men’s basketball championship, the college basketball transfer portal opened. The Tribune is tracking the major roster additions, subtractions and announcements of ...

Mountain West (and beyond) NCAA baseball tournament projections will be new every week leading up to the College World Series. This seems like the natural step to continue our baseball coverage, and ...

Shira is eager to hear from college students and their families about how you’re feeling about the job market. Drop her a line at shira.ovide@washpost.com. A lot of students took the advice to learn ...