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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
New programs meet a range of academic, social, and emotional needs for people on the spectrum. → Read More
Making anything more than a generic statement is widely seen as too risky. → Read More
Men have trailed women in degree completion for decades. Why aren’t colleges doing anything? → Read More
Programs can be expensive and risky, but many students demand them. → Read More
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
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
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
New programs go beyond counseling and medication, offering help with setting priorities, organizing schedules, and other life skills. → Read More
Anxious students are confiding in them more than ever. → Read More
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 gender gap among college students only worsened during the pandemic. Is it a problem people have the will to solve? → Read More
Though the idea has gone mainstream, questions remain. Here are four of them. → Read More
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
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 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
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
A growing movement of college athletes is pressuring athletics departments to treat mental illness with the same urgency as musculoskeletal injury. → Read More
Online programs offer low-cost courses for college credit → Read More
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