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A mother sits with her baby daughter, who is in a high chair at the kitchen table while her mother studies for a university class.
Student Success Health & Wellness

Health and Wellness Tip: Support Student Parents Facing Abuse

College students with children face heightened risk of domestic violence. Here are five ways institutions can recognize and support learners in crisis.

A Black student studies in a library
Student Success The College Experience

Report: PWIs Can Do More to Support Students of Color

A new report from the Education Trust identifies seven ways colleges and universities that are majority white can support students of color and create a positive racial climate.

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Opinion
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Why Campuses Need Centers for Pluralism

Now more than ever, colleges must help students learn to cooperate across differences, writes Eboo Patel.

By Eboo Patel

Jane Swift, a light-skinned woman with long gray hair wearing a black shirt, sits at her desk at the Education at Work headquarters in Arizona.
Student Success Life After College

How Jane Swift Is Supporting Meaningful Student Work

In this Q&A, Swift, new president of the nonprofit Education at Work, shares how her organization is working with colleges and corporations to help students gain valuable, and paid, real-world experiences—plus what she thinks career centers and educators must do to better prepare students.

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Students Financial Aid

Weighing Perceptions Against Realities of Going to College

A new poll of high school students found that cost has a significant influence on the college they attend, but so do perceptions about the experience they’ll have there.

Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, a brown-skinned man with bright gray hair wearing the traditional military uniform of the surgeon general, is flanked by Kate Bowler, a professor of American religion at Duke, who is wearing pink, and men’s basketball coach Jon Scheyer, a light-skinned man wearing a blue suit, onstage at the Page Auditorium at Duke University.
Students Physical & Mental Health

The New Plague on Campus: Loneliness

Surgeon General Vivek Murthy launched his “We Are Made to Connect” campus tour last month, highlighting the role colleges can play in curing the loneliness epidemic.

Students loiter outside the University of Missouri at Kansas City student union on the patio and on the second-floor patio.
Student Success Academic Life

Scaling Up: Supplemental Instruction to Aid Learning, Community Building

The University of Missouri at Kansas City has offered supplemental instruction for five decades. Here’s what the university has learned and changed.

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Student Success Health & Wellness

Report: Where Higher Ed Needs to Invest in Mental Health

A new brief from the American Council on Education identifies six areas for colleges and universities to prioritize as supportive measures for students and employees.