Students at Richmond colleges have to be creative to meet the financial and time-consuming challenges of transportation around their campuses.

After the shooting at Virginia Teach, Richmond area colleges and universities have revamped their safety policies and procedures.

The universities and colleges in the Richmond area offer students a variety of choices, including some of the state’s best and largest institutions of higher education.

When college students’ spending habits collide with newly found freedom and a lack of funds, the financial stress can end a college career before it really started.

Many college freshmen are hesitant to approach new people. But breaking the ice with peers is not that difficult. All of them are in the same boat.

J. Sargeant Reynolds and John Tyler community college offer training for professionals, to acquire new skills needed on their jobs and enhance their careers.

During his first college year, Douglas Ford successfully found a middle ground between his engineering classes at J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College and his job as a mechanic.

If another four years of sitting at a desk listening to teachers lecture about pronouns and calculus formulas isn’t appealing, there are alternatives to the traditional college experience.

Thousands of residents across the commonwealth turn to community colleges for training and education. Approximately 240,342 students took at least one credited course during the 2006-07 academic year.