On Feb. 29, 2020, Suzanne Ames was in downtown Seattle giving a workshop at the National Community College Baccalaureate Conference. Ames is vice president of instruction at Lake Washington Institute of Technology, a public technical college about a 20-minute drive east of the city.

The University of Florida put a professor of computer engineering on leave last month amid a lengthy investigation into the suicide of one of his graduate students. . Publicly, the university has said little about the case.

Elected officials in New Hampshire are formalizing a proposal to operate the state's public universities and community colleges under one system. . The state on Tuesday released details about a proposed merger that would combine the University System of New Hampshire with the Community College . . .