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Adult learners of color are focused, ambitious, and resourceful, and represent a sizable share of students at community colleges. But policies, practices, and beliefs rooted in history unfairly hold many of these learners back from a better education and its benefits.
The Racial Equity for Adult Credentials in Higher Education (REACH) Collaborative is working to change that trajectory.

Foster-care youth have some of the worst reported education outcomes in the nation, according to the California Department of Education. About 60 percent of foster-care youth in California complete high school. And no more than 15 percent are considered college-ready, compared with 44 percent statewide.
First Star Academy is determined to bridge this gap.

Stephanie Land's memoir "Maid" was adapted into a widely popular Netflix series. Her new book, "Class," chronicles the next chapter of her life at the University of Montana.
In her latest book, Land recounts the struggles facing many student-parents today: trying to finish college while encountering a byzantine loan system, not having enough money for food, and navigating the judgments of professors and fellow students who don't understand the demands of attending college while under the poverty line.

When Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed six new members to the board of New College of Florida earlier this year, giving the oversight panel of the public liberal-arts college in Sarasota a decidedly right-wing bent, there was no ambiguity in the message being sent.
This year has quickly become a defining moment for American higher education, one that will decide whom institutions admit, who will teach those students, and what those professors can teach.

Miles Community College is a small, rural institution located about a mile off Interstate 94 in eastern Montana. It’s the only college in a 70-mile radius, enrolling around 500 students each term. Around 43 percent of these individuals are dual-enrollment high schoolers.
Most high school students in this rural community don’t think they need college because they plan to follow in their families' footsteps and work on the ranch after they graduate. MCC is showing they another pathway.

The rise of AI software brings with it the prospect of making our lives easier. But could it also be unethical? Is it plagiarism? And could it chip away at our own creativity?
That's what North Carolina State University English professor Paul Fyfe wanted to find out. So, at the end of a recent semester, he told his students to cheat by using the text-generating AI software ChatGPT to help write their final essays. In this interview, Fyfe discusses what AI can and can't do.