International students coming to the United States can mean a financial boon for community colleges as well as the towns and cities where they reside. Nearly 100,000 international students attending U.S. community colleges contributed $2.4 billion to the U.S. economy and supported more than 14,000 jobs during the 2016-17 academic year, according to data released […]

What began as a push to increase the number and diversity of students studying STEM has evolved into a full-scale effort to improve teaching and learning at The University of Arizona. In 2013, the college was selected as one of eight initial project sites for The STEM Undergraduate Initiative, a project of the Association of […]

Learning to pay bills amidst a first-time job search can be a foggy and drawn out process for undergraduates. Unfortunately, credit reporting processes don’t allow much time for students to find their financial bearings. About 7 out of 10 graduates pay their credit cards over 30 days late during the time immediately after graduation, according […]

Governors State University in Illinois opened in the 1970s as one of a handful of two-year “upper division” schools for students finishing their degrees. It quickly proved unsustainable as far as attracting students and providing a complete education experience. In Leading Academic Change: Vision, Strategy, Transformation (2018, Stylus Publishers), the university’s president, Elaine Maimon, discusses […]