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Kelly Field

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Washington, DC, United States

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  • PBS
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Past articles by Kelly:

Learning the ‘Unspoken Rules’

Colleges are enrolling more students on the autism spectrum, but a third of graduates with autism don’t find jobs. Here’s how one university is aiming to change that. → Read More

Making a Home for Students With Autism

New programs meet a range of academic, social, and emotional needs for people on the spectrum. → Read More

We Asked College Health Centers How They’ll Deal With Abortion Restrictions. They Aren’t Saying.

Making anything more than a generic statement is widely seen as too risky. → Read More

The Problem Nobody’s Talking About: The Male-Graduation Gap

Men have trailed women in degree completion for decades. Why aren’t colleges doing anything? → Read More

Colleges Turn to Students’ Peers for Mental-Health Support

Programs can be expensive and risky, but many students demand them. → Read More

A U.S. Program for Migrant Students Is Unusually Successful. Now the Pandemic Threatens It.

They get academic, social, emotional, and financial support and persist at rates typically seen only at highly selective institutions. But it’s an uphill battle to recruit them right now. → Read More

How Colleges Can Reach the Lost Freshmen of 2020

Enrolling students whose plans were disrupted by Covid-19 is a matter of mission and a financial imperative — but it’s not easy. → Read More

The Pandemic Accelerates a Decline in Campus-Based Child Care

With the child care sector already fragile, advocates for student parents worry that even fewer of them will graduate on time, if at all. → Read More

How Time-Management and Other Tools Can Help Students With Mental Illnesses Stay Enrolled

New programs go beyond counseling and medication, offering help with setting priorities, organizing schedules, and other life skills. → Read More

‘Heart-Pounding’ Conversations: Professors Are Being Trained to Spot Signs of Mental-Health Distress

Anxious students are confiding in them more than ever. → Read More

PBS

What science tells us about improving middle school

Over the last 20 years, scientists have learned a lot about how the adolescent brain works and what motivates middle schoolers. Yet a lot of their findings aren’t making it into the classroom. → Read More

The Missing Men

The gender gap among college students only worsened during the pandemic. Is it a problem people have the will to solve? → Read More

Student-Debt Cancellation Stands Its Best Chance Yet. But Would It Advance Social Justice?

Though the idea has gone mainstream, questions remain. Here are four of them. → Read More

The Rise of Dual Credit

More and more students take college classes while still in high school.That is boosting degree attainment but also raising doubts about rigor. → Read More

This May Be the Worst Season of Summer Melt in Memory. Here’s How Some Colleges Are Fighting It.

The term “melt,” which describes students who commit to a college but don’t show up for classes, isn’t new. But the coronavirus could turn this season’s melt into a flood. → Read More

A Cash-Strapped University Bet on Student Success — and Grew

A major investment in undergraduate support, close attention to data, and a shift in the way it allocates resources gave the University of Rhode Island a lot to celebrate. → Read More

This Woman Goes Door to Door to Steer Students to College

A pilot federal program embeds guidance counselors in housing projects to help chart students’ paths to college. As one of those counselors discovered, sometimes the biggest obstacles are cultural. → Read More

College Athletes Push for More Mental-Health Care, Fighting ‘Tough It Out’ Culture

A growing movement of college athletes is pressuring athletics departments to treat mental illness with the same urgency as musculoskeletal injury. → Read More

Entree to Freshman Year: Online programs offer low-cost courses for college credit

Online programs offer low-cost courses for college credit → Read More

In the Summer of 2016, These 4 Native Students Looked Toward College. Here’s Where They Are Now.

As members of America’s least-educated demographic group, they are dealing with family obligations, poverty, and inadequate preparation, among other obstacles to getting a degree. → Read More