Institutions

Connecticut’s community colleges get the go-ahead from their accreditor to merge. Administrators celebrate while faculty members mourn.

Northern Essex Community College introduced a slew of new initiatives to enroll and retain Hispanic students after the pandemic led to a sharp enrollment decline. The college recovered the losses, and administrators learned lasting lessons about how to better serve these students.

A new report finds that STEM programs and professional degrees often pay off, while those in arts and humanities frequently do not. Many M.B.A. programs also offer a negative return on investment.

The Graduate Theological Union has created an online platform featuring lessons by scholars about spirituality and activism.

Workforce Talent Educators Association wants to recognize, and conceivably accredit, institutions for how successfully they prepare students for work.

It was no easy task to win approval for a brand-new Department of Race, Diaspora and Indigeneity at the University of Chicago, Leora Auslander and Adom Getachew write.

A synagogue and a community college partner to feed students struggling with food insecurity.

Colleges must mobilize now against legislation to censor curricula and ideas, Jonathan Friedman writes.