Students

Shaylen Hardy offers strategies for colleges to help those students cope with trauma and the other burgeoning mental health challenges on their campuses.

Several concerning enrollment trends are holding strong as the latest, and more comprehensive, data show. Experts and advocates are particularly worried about community colleges.

A new survey about student experiences during the fall semester and the coronavirus pandemic found that stress, anxiety and loneliness were their overriding concern. The data are representative of the real-life challenges and uncertainty that students say they face.

Saying the coronavirus accelerated an ongoing need to rightsize its faculty, college plans to eliminate 130 full-time teaching jobs.

Survey finds gains among underrepresented minority students as well as international students. The biggest enrollment increases by field were in mathematics and computer sciences and engineering.

Service staff in higher education have seen drastic layoffs and furloughs. Some have argued not all of those cuts were necessary.

University warns students not to expose themselves to the virus so they can profit financially. Town feels penalized by college's infection rate. Outbreaks at Washington, Monmouth and Ohio University.

Such experiences, if developed strategically, can encourage students’ engagement in ways that shape their degree completion and postcollege success, writes Terry Vaughan III.