Several states have created an initiative to help community college students transfer into four-year institutions without losing credits or having to repeat courses.

The next legislative session is still more than six months away, but the Austin Independent School District has already chosen its focus issues for the next session. The first one isn’t surprising: school funding. The other is mental health. Austin ISD provides nearly 2,000 students with on-site counseling every year. 

As manufacturing, affordability and politics converge to make community college a first-tier higher education option for millions of students, studies continue to show that the skills learned in these institutions don’t generate wealth or upward mobility. Ideally, the way to make community college affordable and industrially relevant is the partnerships between two-year and four-year schools.

Georgia State University has been acclaimed for its work with minority, first-generation and low-income students.

Ask Jaclynn Davis Wallette and she'll tell you that having more racial diversity at the area's college and university campuses is a goal worth pursuing.

What do students really think about whether universities should make diversity a priority when recruiting students and faculty? Are campuses polarized into pro- and anti-diversity camps? These are important questions, but uncovering what students really think about hot-button issues is not simple.

Punished for holding hands with a boyfriend or girlfriend, for wearing non-gender-conforming clothing to class or prom, or for defending themselves against verbal harassment and physical assault—those are just some of the discriminatory incidents LGBT students experience in U.S. public schools. 

Something new is happening at a batch of California urban schools. Students are being asked if they are happy at school. The recent focus on the social and emotional well-being of students as a way to improve test scores is gaining statewide traction.