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“Emotional stress” remains a top reason that students consider “stopping out,” or temporarily withdrawing from higher education, according to a new study. Researchers say promoting campus mental health resources might help win them over.
The report, from Gallup and Lumina Foundation, comes at a time when colleges are facing increasingly severe mental health crises and searching for ways to accommodate student needs for on-campus mental health services.

Amanda Luciano thought the International Academy of Design and Technology was the answer to her prayers—the place that would give her the skills, training, and support to land a dream job in the fashion industry. That didn't happen.
Instead, IADT was accused of misconduct. But because Luciano had been steered to take out a private loan instead of a federal one, she cannot get debt relief from a recent $6 billion settlement.

More than a decade ago, three states—South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama—banned undocumented students from public colleges.
The bans, immigration advocates say, are part of a larger message being conveyed by state officials to undocumented students: The doors of opportunity are frozen shut.

Older workers are critical to the nation's labor force. Yet, older workers face a myriad of challenges, from ageism to managing careers amid change. If they are women or from underrepresented groups, obstacles can be even greater.
A new digital magazine from CWI Labs and WorkingNation examines the world of work for older workers and job seekers.

The University of Phoenix continues to receive more GI Bill funding—$1.6 billion from 2013 to 2021—than any other institution of higher learning, despite its history of government scrutiny for misleading military veterans.
Of the top 10 recipients of GI Bill funding, seven are for-profit colleges while two are private colleges, and just one is a public institution. That reality concerns many veterans advocates.

More than two decades ago, Bard College's Leon Botstein described the U.S. News & World rankings as “corrupt, intellectually bankrupt, and revolting.”
Still, he cooperated with U.S. News data requests—until now. Here's how the rankings revolt came to be.