TOHONO O’ODHAM NATION, Ariz. — By the numbers, Tohono O’odham Community College is booming. Enrollment in the fall semester was just under 1,200, according to the American Indian Higher Edu...
CHICO, Calif. — Most students in the California State University, Chico, library were silently poring over books or computers on a recent afternoon, but one group was tucked into a corner peppe...
CHICAGO — Donje Gates’ family wants him to go to college in the fall, to “break that cycle” of so many young Black men choosing other paths. But he’s keeping his options open. “The th...
LOS ANGELES – The first in his family to attend college, Paul Medina was increasingly frustrated by his inability to get into a college-level math class. Medina first enrolled in remedial cours...
College took a back seat the moment Izzy B. called the suicide hotline. Izzy, 18, had spent her senior year of high school online. Then she’d gone straight to online summer school at a local co...
With the Covid-19 pandemic threatening the two restaurants he owned in Oklahoma City, Vetiana Phiasiripanyo decided to sell and switch to a vastly different career: wind energy. It would prove a ...
LONG BEACH, Calif. — At a time when the Covid-19 pandemic has exposed a growing shortage of nurses, it should have been good news that there were more than 1,200 applicants to enter the associa...
The 20 hours a week Perla Ortiz worked in the St. Edward’s University admissions office last year was the glue that kept her academic life together. Paid through the federal work-study program,...
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You won’t know it from their mostly empty campuses, but colleges and universities will be bustling this summer. With millions of Americans unemployed or reluctant to travel or socialize because...
As record numbers of Americans lose their jobs because of the coronavirus pandemic, Kathleen Perlmutter has been desperately trying to turn out enough graduates to fill a critical shortage of wor...