Last month, a Boston University junior proudly posted online that he had spent months calling Immigration and Customs Enforcement to report Latino workers at a neighborhood car wash.…
Read more OPINION: Colleges must start treating immigration-based targeting as a serious threat to student safety and belonging – The Hechinger ReportAbout six years ago, an apprentice training to be a machinist in Washington state told her supervisor she would probably have to drop out of the training program…
Read more Early childhood educator apprenticeships offer an answer to child care shortagesOAKLAND — In 2020, California led the nation in outlawing transcript-withholding, a debt collection practice that sometimes kept low-income college students from getting jobs or advanced degrees. Five…
Read more 5 years after transcript withholding bans began, college students face fewer obstacles but advocates worry about enforcementEven with a conservative think tank’s blueprint detailing how the second Trump administration should reimagine the federal government’s role in education, few might have predicted what actually materialized…
Read more The Trump administration’s biggest impact on education in 2025Ohio resident Megan Cutright lost her hospitality job during the pandemic. At her daughter’s urging, she found her way to Lorain County Community College in Ohio and onto…
Read more OPINION: Workforce Pell can lead to good jobs for students if they get the support needed for long-term success – The Hechinger ReportThis story was produced in partnership with Work Shift and reprinted with permission. MOBILE, Ala. — Three or four times a week, LaTyra Malone starts her day at…
Read more Amid a national shortage of nurses, nursing apprenticeships are beginning to offer a solution to the problemPLEASANTVILLE, N.Y. — As she approached her senior year in high school, the thought of moving on to college was “scary and intimidating” to Milianys Santiago — especially…
Read more As the supply of applicants declines, college admissions gets kinder and gentlerWashington lawmakers and the Trump administration passed a major legislative package this summer that will cut funding for programs that help students from low-income backgrounds — making it…
Read more OPINION: New education budget cuts will mean millions of young people could lose the opportunity to earn a college degree and build a more financially secure futureSummer usually provides a respite for Connor Pavlicko from his duties as student body president at Slippery Rock University. But this summer, he was bombarded by classmates demanding…
Read more The good news? College tuition has been going down. The bad news? It’s about to rise againFor the first time in more than a decade, confidence in the nation’s colleges and universities is rising. Forty-two percent of Americans now say they have “a great…
Read more OPINION: Higher Education must help shape how students learn, lead and build the skills employers want mostLOS ANGELES — Oscar Mateo dreamed of being an artist, but after he got leukemia when he was 20, his life plans abruptly changed. The compassionate nursing care…
Read more Nurses are in high demand but nursing schools struggle tp provide enough slots to train themGRESHAM, Ore. — When Ken Perez was 24, he quit his construction job and moved back in with his parents so he could give college another try. He…
Read more How an old hotel shows one solution to community college student housing insecuritySALEM, Va. — On a hot and humid August morning in this southwestern Virginia town, football training camp is in full swing at Roanoke College. Players cheer as…
Read more Colleges add sports to bring men, but it doesn’t always workRyan Arnoldy started community college with the goal of eventually transferring to a four-year university and getting a degree in chemical engineering. Soon Arnoldy started running up against…
Read more Being shut out of required courses is delaying college students’ graduationAs a college president, I see the promise of higher education fulfilled every day. Many students at my institution, Whittier College, are the first in their families to…
Read more OPINION: College president fears that federal education cuts will derail the promise of student parents, student military veterans and first-gen studentsELYRIA, Ohio — Nolan Norman had no idea what microelectronic manufacturing entailed when his adviser at Midview High suggested he take the school’s new class on it last…
Read more Colleges struggle to make manufacturing training hot againRead in English. SAN ANTONIO — Ximena tenía un plan. La joven de 18 años de Houston iba a comenzar clases este otoño en la Universidad de Texas…
Read more ¿Qué ha pasado desde que Texas eliminó las matrículas estatales para los estudiantes indocumentados?After a three-year pause prompted by the pandemic, the clock on student loan repayments suddenly started ticking again in September 2023, and forbearance ended last September. For millions…
Read more OPINION: The resumption of student loan payments means students will need new policies — and our helpMOREHEAD, Ky. — The summer after ninth grade, Zoey Griffith found herself in an unfamiliar setting: a dorm on the Morehead State University campus. There, she’d spend the…
Read more TRIO helps low-income students get to and through college. Trump wants to end itSAN ANTONIO — Ximena had a plan. The 18-year-old from Houston was going to start college in the fall at the University of Texas at Tyler, where she had…
Read more What’s happened since Texas killed in-state tuition for undocumented students