Last year, researchers in New Mexico found stable housing and getting enough food, especially nutritious food, were challenges for more than half of students within the prior year, a rate that far exceeds national averages.

Institutions are putting tens of thousands of dollars down on employees' home purchases to keep them on the payroll and revitalize the community. At one New York university, over 550 employees closed on a home.

The D.C.-based nonprofit magazine aims to combat the cog of mainstream narratives hurting the sector's reputation—while critiquing one college ranking titan along the way.

MIT’s dean of admissions and student financial services, Stu Schmill, said that 16% of enrolling undergraduate students in the Class of 2028 identify as Black, Hispanic, Native American, or Pacific Islander. This percentage has decreased from 25% in recent years.