A class action lawsuit is moving forward against 16 prominent universities, including Northwestern University and the University of Chicago, accusing them of holding back financial aid to students who qualified.
As the football and girls' soccer teams sweated through summer practice on the athletics fields at LaVergne High School, a small group of adult advisers inside shared tales of their own ordeals.
Like many K-12 schools across the state, Tennessee's historically Black colleges are in a staffing crisis. It's a years-long problem that has affected how fast students can get their financial aid and housing applications processed.
We need to redesign higher education as an experience that helps students harmonize education, work and family—instead of pitting them against each other.
Improving the student accounts process sounds about as sexy as a root canal, which is part of why so many institutions have avoided upgrading processes that could earn thousands or even millions in lost revenue.
