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Can Coaching Bring Students Back to HBCUs?
A new initiative aims to bring back 4,000 students who stopped out of private historically Black colleges and universities and guide them to graduation with one-on-one coaching. Public HBCUs are doing similar outreach to students, especially those who left during the pandemic.
Retirement Benefits Return
For the most part, institutions are resuming the faculty and staff retirement benefits they cut or stopped during the pandemic. Fights over the future of those benefits are being waged on some campuses.
A Tumultuous Year Closes With Celebration
Whether in person or virtual, colleges and universities try to make this year's commencements joyous.
Enforcing Religious Values or Stifling Dissent?
A recent graduate of Louisiana College says administrators used strict social media policies to censor criticism of the college. College officials say they are within their rights to protect the reputation of the institution.
Lifting Mask Mandates
As colleges consider how to incorporate new CDC guidance for vaccinated individuals into their planning, some lift mask mandates. Others say not so fast.
Crisis for India
Experts fear higher education could be damaged “beyond repair” by COVID-19 catastrophe.
Infographic: Campus Racial Climate Expectations and Observations
Students speak out about what they’ve seen and what they expect from their colleges with regard to racial justice and climate.
A Troublesome Year Leads to President’s Firing
Ronald Graham served as president of Haskell Indian Nations University for about one year and was removed amid student and faculty claims that he suppressed free speech on campus.