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Philadelphia’s most renowned universities—Temple, Penn, Drexel, La Salle, and St. Joseph’s—have an enormous impact on the city, with combined budgets of more than $6 billion. But their impact on students from Philadelphia is much smaller.

Only 14 percent of the combined first-year students from these universities are from Philadelphia. Local high school counselors and nonprofit leaders discuss why.

Public colleges in Oklahoma are hurrying to compile details on “every dollar” spent over the past decade on diversity. 

It’s another example of heightened interest by a Republican state official in documenting, and potentially curbing, colleges’ efforts to promote equity and inclusion.

Two bipartisan bills in the Colorado legislature aim to boost adult high school diploma programs, as well as ensure students learn digital literacy skills.

Both bills are designed to meet critical needs for Coloradans and also for the state—namely to produce more educated workers and to train more people for jobs that have been stubbornly hard to fill.