As higher education faces a potential exodus of students—particularly lower-income students who attend community colleges—what role could creative financing play in helping students bridge the gap from college to a career?

Chris Keaveney thinks his company, Meritize, can be part of the solution. The private lender focuses on reducing risk and friction for students, colleges, and employers. Keaveney talks about what the model could mean for skills-based learning in this podcast. 

How does perhaps the most significant presidential election in our lifetimes fit into campus life? Not easily, say two professors who have been watching, and worrying, whether colleges are doing enough to help students understand the issues underlying this election and handle its aftermath.

Work-study jobs may seem like a perk, but in a normal year, the program provides nearly $1.2 billion in help for college for more than 612,000 students across the country. They are paid at least minimum wage for part-time jobs ranging from receptionists in college offices to attendants in campus gyms or aides in local schools. The federal government typically covers about 50 percent of the wages, and the institutions pay the rest.

Many of those jobs were on campuses that have gone completely or mostly online during the pandemic, and colleges and universities have not been able to adapt all of them to this new reality.