Why is Everyone Talking About ‘Durable Skills’?Watch our new explainer on how higher ed is defining these abilities, why colleges are increasingly focused on cultivating them in students, and what those efforts look like. Sep 08 26September 08, 2026Article at CHE
Workforce Pell: Who Benefits, What’s at RiskWatch our explainer on how the expansion of Pell eligibility to short-term programs could affect work-force education — and the challenges institutions face in implementing the policy. May 05 26May 05, 2026Article at CHE
Who Is a First-Generation Student?The answer is complicated, but serving their needs is of growing importance, as colleges seek to increase diversity, equity, and accessibility on their campuses. Learn more about this substantial, if not easily defined, population of students pursuing a college degree. Apr 08 25April 08, 2025Article at CHE
A College Partnership Saves a Newspaper, Helps a Rural Community, and Prepares Its Students for the FutureWilliam H. (Dink) NeSmith was supposed to be getting out of the newspaper business. Jan 27 25January 27, 2025Article at CHE
‘I Wanted to Find My Community’Felisia Tagaban Gaskin knows that traditional pathways to student success don’t always work for Native students. As the director of the University of Arizona’s Native Student Outreach, Access, and Resiliency (SOAR) program, Gaskin takes a different approach: providing culturally responsive programming and building a strong on-campus community. Dec 02 24December 02, 2024Article at CHE
A College Partnership Saves a Newspaper, Helps a Rural Community, and Prepares Its Students for the FutureWilliam H. (Dink) NeSmith was supposed to be getting out of the newspaper business. Nov 11 24November 11, 2024Article at CHE
“The Most Important Thing Is to Understand You’re Not Alone”Colleges cannot just offer resources to students; they need to bridge gaps. Watch our As a freshman at Montgomery College, Nicole Javitt’s family life turned upside down. With the support of her college counselor, Nicole successfully processed her trauma, got her studies back on track, and transferred to the University of Maryland to continue her academic journey.story about a counselor’s vital role in helping a Montgomery College freshman. Oct 21 24October 21, 2024Article at CHE
Two Professors Take Students Outside the Classroom to Bring History HomeKaren Curls and Lyle Gibson go to great lengths, literally, to teach the history of civil rights. Sep 30 24September 30, 2024Article at CHE
What’s Wrong With Transfer?Watch our explainer to better understand the hurdles many transfer students face and what can be done to help these students succeed. Sep 09 24September 09, 2024Article at CHE
A Graduate of an Innovative Program Balances Dreams and UncertaintyKal-El Key, a recent graduate of SUNY-Canton’s new esports-management program, hopes to find work in the fast-growing industry. Here’s his story. Aug 12 24August 12, 2024Article at CHE
Lost and Found: A Once-Troubled Student Pulls Himself TogetherVasily Keytiyev has overcome a troubled past and is back on track, thanks in part to the Marine Corps Reserve and a nonprofit called Service to School. Jul 08 24July 08, 2024Article at CHE
Reaching Rural Students: The STARS Network Hits the RoadRecruiters from schools like Cal Tech, Columbia, Yale, Ohio State, and Vanderbilt regularly drive the most rural roads in the South. They’re looking for students who don’t know much about their college options—but have the potential to thrive there. Jun 10 24June 10, 2024Article at CHE
A Small Town, Two Students, and Different College DreamsNolan Cook and Will Shafer are looking to higher education for exactly opposite reasons. May 07 24May 07, 2024Article at CHE
What Counts as a Rural College?Rural education isn’t given the resources or urgency it deserves. With agricultural jobs declining, the future of countless rural adults rests on higher ed. Pull back the curtain and take a closer look at the shifting landscape of rural America. Apr 22 24April 22, 2024Article at CHE
‘The Covid Car Is Coming’Late one afternoon in September, Abbie Macher, a junior studying chemistry at Brown University, sat alone and feverish in her dorm room, calling her mom. Brown was experiencing a surge in breakthrough Covid cases — over 80 that week — and given… Nov 11 21November 11, 2021Article at CHE
Reinforce the Front Lines With First RespondersErik Haversang Most students at Saint Michael’s College, in Vermont, went home in mid-March because of the coronavirus outbreak, but some of them decided to stay to help the local community by providing emergency medical treatment and fire-protection… May 15 20May 15, 2020Article at CHE
Connect the Generations OnlineDespite leaving campus, many students are continuing — even expanding on — their service-learning projects. Motivated to help, and with time to spare, they’ve figured out ways to connect with children, senior citizens, and other people in the… May 15 20May 15, 2020Article at CHE
Additional security check is requiredWhy am I seeing this page? The website you are visiting is protected and accelerated by Incapsula. Your computer may have been infected by malware and therefore flagged by the Incapsula network. Incapsula displays this page for you to verify that an… Apr 21 20April 21, 2020Article at CHE
Distribute Food and Supplies to the Local CommunityOakland U. Pallets of food and supplies are stacked in the hallways of the student center at Oakland University, in Michigan, waiting to be sorted by masked and gloved volunteers who will pack everything up to be driven to people in need in the area,… Apr 21 20April 21, 2020Article at CHE
Provide Legal Aid to Vulnerable PopulationsWhile the courts are mostly closed, people still have legal problems. Some are in the middle of litigation. Even the relatively simple tasks of printing out forms, filling them in, and delivering them to a courthouse (or scanning and submitting them… Apr 21 20April 21, 2020Article at CHE
