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Panelists urge employers, higher ed to adapt to changing, more diverse workforce

Bridgewater State University President Fred Clark said employers are looking for grads who work well in teams, utilize critical thinking skills, interpret data, and are digitally literate.

Portland footwear designer proposes to reopen closed Detroit Black college

If approved by the state, it would give Detroit what designer D'Wayne Edwards called the "first design-focused HBCU."

$50K fine, no prosecution for ex-coach in college scam deal

The deal comes days after prosecutors won guilty verdicts against two wealthy parents accused of buying their kids’ way into school in the first trial in the scandal.

Man fatally shot in Alabama after argument over college football, police say

The deadly shooting occurred during the University of Alabama-Texas A&M University football game.

Temple University outlines its promotion of diversity

The university recently announced that about 45% of its 2025 classes will be non-white students, an increase from 31% just five years ago.

HBCU partnership announced between Washtenaw Community College, Jackson State University, Mississippi Valley State University, Southern University at New Orleans

Today's news marks the first comprehensive agreement between a Michigan two-year school and a Historically Black College & University (HBCU).

‘I really wanted to graduate’: Students frustrated after Vista College closes abruptly

Vista College has permanently closed due to financial circumstances.

A college degree is now ‘a matter of life and death,’ says this Nobel Prize winner

During the COVID pandemic, suicides have declined but drug overdoses have risen rapidly.

Most college students don’t graduate in 4 years, so the government counts 6 years as ‘success’

As the White House proposes spending billions to improve completion rates, colleges measure successful graduation rates at six and even eight years.

Stimulants like Ritalin may be gateway drugs for college students

Research links misuse of so-called "study drugs' to binge drinking and marijuana use.

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