View Larger Map The Community College of the District of Columbia has signed a lease for a nine-story, 88,000 sq. ft. building at 801 North Capitol Street NE, just two blocks from Union Station and a brief bus (or eventual streetcar) ride to the H Street NE corridor. The deal could signify a major step in the separation of the Community College from the existing four-year UDC, and it also puts a nice dent in…

An independent report commissioned by DC Appleseed and the Brookings Institution has concluded that it is “critical to the success and sustainability of” the new Community College of the District of Columbia to sever ties with the University of the District of Columbia. UDC, which has always had plenty of problems balancing the hefty costs of a four-year university and its open-enrollment-assisted reputation as a two-year college, split focus in August into the University…