While many community colleges are suffering from enrollment declines, Tohono O’odham Community College is experiencing a surge. 

This is, in part, because the pandemic prompted the college to offer students from about 55 tribal nations tuition-free online courses. Now, the college is grappling with a different challenge: What happens when there’s less federal aid and in-person classes resume?

Latinos now make up 19 percent of the total U.S. population. That's more than 62 million individuals, according to the 2020 U.S. Census. 

Marlene Orozco of the Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative joins Work in Progress to discuss the think tank’s just-released report, The State of Latino Entrepreneurship, plus the obstacles many Latino entrepreneurs face when it comes to starting their own businesses.

Wilberforce University, the country’s first private historically Black college, garnered national attention last summer when its president announced that the classes of 2021 and 2020 would have their debt to Wilberforce erased.

As for what comes next, the university is developing a nursing program to meet the community's growing needs from COVID-19, plus expanding its degree completion program aimed at working adults.