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The United States urgently needs more nurses, and colleges are scaling up programs to meet that demand.
But there’s a problem: While nursing education must prepare students to work with an increasingly diverse population of patients, the curriculum and the faculty are dominated by white women. How can colleges bridge that gap?

Universities are constantly looking for creative ways to support students’ mental health. One university is now offering a one-credit course designed to teach emotional regulation.
The ability to handle one's emotions is vital, says Amy Morgan, the creator of the course at The University of Maryland. This is especially true at a time when university counseling centers are stretched thin and off-campus therapy tends to be prohibitively expensive.

Many students attend community college with good intentions of transferring to a four-year institution. Few actually end up earning a bachelor’s degree.
Researchers are now embarking on a two-year initiative to dig deeper into this dynamic, breaking down statistics by race and ethnicity to find practices that can help colleges improve their outcomes. Two leaders behind the project discuss what they hope to achieve in this interview.

Once seen as a way to stave off “senioritis” among top students, the “dual credit” option—which allows high schoolers to take college courses—is booming in the United States, driven by a quest to lower the time and cost of a college degree.
The opportunity is now widely viewed as a tool to advance equity, with the potential to close long-standing racial and socioeconomic gaps in college completion.

It's an ongoing challenge for millions of Americans: paying for college. And with it comes a massive amount of student debt for many families.
Two education experts weigh in on the root causes of rising college costs—plus what can be done to make the college experience affordable once again.

More two- and four-year schools are stepping up to take advantage of the opportunities technical, trade, and apprenticeship programs can provide students. It's also a means, according to experts, to help diversify fields that are predominately white and male.
Denmark Technical College, for instance, works closely with local industry and business leaders, connecting with legislators and local government to understand what industries are coming to the area and the skill sets needed.