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.

Watch 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.

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.

William H. (Dink) NeSmith was supposed to be getting out of the newspaper business.

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.

William H. (Dink) NeSmith was supposed to be getting out of the newspaper business.

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.

Karen Curls and Lyle Gibson go to great lengths, literally, to teach the history of civil rights.

Watch our explainer to better understand the hurdles many transfer students face and what can be done to help these students succeed.

Kal-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.

Vasily 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.

Recruiters 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.

Nolan Cook and Will Shafer are looking to higher education for exactly opposite reasons.

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.

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…

Erik 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…

Despite 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…

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Oakland 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,…

While 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…