Student Persistence News Today

New Trustees Chair Brenda Burdick speaks about the incoming class of MCLA students.  NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts is hoping an upward...

Three out of four students who started college in fall 2020 — the first fall semester of the COVID-19 pandemic — returned for a second year, according to a new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.

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Gardner-Webb University to add minority mentoring program

  The pandemic, the financial crisis and the reckoning over race have precipitated a crisis that higher education needs to have. By exposing and intensifying long-standing problems involving access, affordability, equity and quality, the current emergency is forcing colleges and universities to confront problems that higher education has evaded and responsibilities that it has shirked. Sometimes, institutions need a crisis. Often, it’s only a crisis that can jolt an institution out of its le...