Prairie State College is offering a new program to provide internships to unemployed suburban Cook County residents. The partnership with Opportunity Works connects participants with eight-week paid internships in high-demand industries like transportation, distribution and logistics, information technology, manufacturing, and healthcare. The internships pay $15 per hour for 25 hours per week. Participants do not […]
College educators and residents are leading a privately funded mentorship program for minority male students to engage with them and help them with personal and academic success while boosting self-confidence. The free Detours Mentoring Team began in October 2022 and works with Black and Hispanic men across the county between the ages of 18 to […]
Higher education and K12 accounted for 10% of the hate crimes reported from 2018 to 2022, according to an FBI study that also looked at the ethnicity and religion of the victims.
The new strategy may have arrived in the nick of time: Over the past decade, Pennsylvania's State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) enrollment has dropped 30% and community college enrollment has decreased by 37%, according to officials.
The nationally respected design firm identifies the key aspects that define a generation marked by its pandemic-era development and all its characteristics exacerbated it: intuitive technological use, observational shrewdness and concern for societal advancement.
Reflecting some of the most significant developments in higher education in 2023, our readers at University Business gravitated toward topics reflecting issues most top-of-mind.
As the U.S. higher education fights to keep its revenue afloat, recruitment strategies by other countries to attract their own robust cohorts of international students pose a challenge.
"It was terrifying. I can't even begin to explain," UNLV professor Kevaney Martin said. "I was trying to hold it together for my students, and trying not to cry, but the emotions are something I never want to experience again."
As a lack of affordable housing in the state continues to confront low-income residents, many community college students are feeling the brunt of out-of-reach rent. The National Postsecondary Student Aid Study by the U.S. Department of Education found that, nationally, 8% of community college students experienced homelessness in 2020. There are 31 community colleges in […]
