Major companies and voter registration groups are forming a new coalition to increase voting among community college students, whose voting rates historically lag behind their four-year college and university peers.

The nonpartisan initiative, called the Community College Commitment, hopes to turn out 500,000 new community college student voters by 2028—starting with this presidential election cycle—largely by funding and facilitating voter registration events on community college campuses.

In 2020, students ended their high school careers isolated from loved ones because of the pandemic. Then, they started their freshman year of college with remote learning. Now, they’re getting ready to graduate as protests against the war in Gaza roil college campuses.

Two student journalists—both first-generation college students—share their experiences of graduating college at a time like no other.

Learning in higher education has always taken diverse forms, but recognizing that learning is another matter altogether.

Noncredit activities occur daily at universities, but they’re not part of the national dialogue. It’s time to bring all college learning—credit and noncredit—more clearly and deliberately into plain sight, writes Lumina Foundation's Christopher M. Mullin in this commentary on noncredit programs in higher education.