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Decades ago, Hassan Abdus-Sabur left Howard University before he could get his degree.
Abdus-Sabur is now 48, and he still does not have a bachelor’s degree from Howard or any university. But despite that and because of that, he has spent the last several years working to help raise money for students who attend Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

America has a student debt crisis. But who is responsible for the crisis?
A veteran education reporter, a college president, and a policy expert join this episode of On Point to discuss what colleges and universities can and should do to wrestle down the high cost of higher education.

On the eve of today’s midterm elections, a crack team of political organizers assembled in a “war room” at the Washington Marriott in Georgetown in D.C. from which they spoke to the press, monitored election disinformation and suppression, and helped thousands of on-the-ground volunteers coordinate get-out-the-vote efforts.
They aren't Democratic or Republican Party strategists. They are college students from all over the country.

Gubernatorial candidates in most of the closest races have outlined their stances pertaining to issues related to community colleges. And some incumbent candidates are touting their accomplishments to date on behalf of two-year colleges and their students.
Major-party candidates break down their higher-ed platforms in five closely watched states: two in the Midwest, two in the Southwest, and one in the Southeast.

Diego Diaz has big dreams of one day designing microchips at a company like Intel or Samsung. But his path to employment at a tech giant is frustratingly lengthened by his undocumented status.
Since enrolling at Arizona State University, Diaz has been forced to take two semester-long breaks to earn enough for his tuition. That could all change this year if a ballot measure, Proposition 308, is passed by Arizona voters today.

Mississippi's chamber of commerce and workforce development office are working together on an ambitious goal: get more than half of the state's workforce college-educated by 2030.
Education and policy leaders say the effort takes on new urgency in the aftermath of the pandemic and its impact on the decline in the number of Mississippians going to college.