The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act is expected to train more than 14,000 new mental health professionals and distribute another $1 billion over the next five years.

With a smaller pool of available students, a growing wake of attention to mental health and a swelling public skepticism of higher education, these small private college and university leaders in Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts and Maine are redefining their job to guide their schools in murky waters.

Each college was awarded $500,000, half of the million dollar prize purse. According to the release, since its creation in 2010, the Aspen Prize has been the nation’s signature recognition of community colleges that are achieving high, improving, and equitable outcomes for students. Amarillo and Imperial Valley are among the nation’s fastest-improving community colleges, achieving […]

Surveying 1,443 students, the findings identified easily achievable opportunities for institutions to meet the needs of prospective students.