Earning two-year community college degrees in health care or STEM fields can put young people on a solid course to better earnings in well-paid fields with high demand for workers in Massachusetts, but there are big gaps in those seeking these degrees between students from low-income and better-off households.
For better or for worse, young people across the country and around the world are chronicling their every acceptance and rejection on social media, which can make the college admission process more complex and stressful.
Several Iowa community colleges, after reviewing their diversity, equity and inclusion activities to come in line with recommendations from Community Colleges for Iowa, have concluded that they were already on the right track in their mission of supporting all students.
Legislators want to shift the financial responsibility for educating and training Illinois residents from students back to the state. The hope is that, in a decade, tuition rates won't leave students hobbled with debt—or shut out of college altogether.
A growing number of colleges offering direct admissions, a little-known practice that gives students a fast-track to college, bypassing essays, recommendation letters and sometimes even the application itself. The practice is gaining steam among colleges hoping to balance their enrollment.
The state argued at a hearing Monday that the 2023 law rightly protects high school students who are not Christian, straight, and cisgender — those whose gender identity matches the sex they were assigned at birth.
"There are a lot of things that have people freaked out about the election of the Trump administration, but sometimes disrupting a system is a good thing," Jane Swift, president of Education at Work, says on the latest University Business Podcast.
