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COVID-19 cases surged among UC San Diego students early this month as they returned from their winter break, but the number of new cases has dropped dramatically in recent weeks.

Even after accounting for differences in income, education, caregiver support, special education services and parental reports of misbehavior and family conflict, elementary school-age Black… Read more »

Across the county high school student suicide rates have gone up. Some research suggests that young students not being able to go to school and seek help could be contributing factors to the… Read more »

The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) is partnering with the Wisconsin Safe and Healthy Schools Center to create the Wisconsin Center for Resilient Schools (WCRS). The center will… Read more »

The University of Illinois had spent months preparing to reopen its campus to students, and a few weeks into the fall semester it seemed all for naught. Cases were exploding. A new testing method… Read more »

The coronavirus crisis has wreaked profound and continuing havoc in higher education. The intensification of the pandemic in recent weeks, with viral infections and covid-19 hospitalizations … Read more »

We checked in with college athletes at Northwestern University and the University of Illinois

Cerritos College will launch an Early College Program this summer that will allow Bellflower, Norwalk and Whitney high school students to earn credits that transfer to the University of California… Read more »

The Connecticut college recently partnered with Middletown WORKS, a Working Cities Challenge Initiative led by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, on a career enrichment program.

Varun Soni is the vice provost for campus wellness and crisis intervention at the University of Southern California. Even before COVID, she says students were struggling with anxiety, depression,… Read more »

The pandemic health crisis has dramatically changed today's higher education landscape. As colleges moved courses fully or partially online, students suddenly found themselves facing a very… Read more »

HBCUs are able to spend about two-thirds the revenue per student than do colleges in general. Despite this, HBCUs produce about one out of eight bachelor’s degrees earned by Black students.

The campus hopes to be serving thousands of students by the end of winter.

More and better advising, clearer paths and dual admission could increase transfers.

What is the health cost of opening college campuses during a pandemic for students and the broader community? New information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finally offers an… Read more »

Many advocates argue that the COVID-19 pandemic has hit community colleges, and their students, the hardest. Colleges are struggling to meet greater demands for basic needs.