The Different Voices of Student Success

A recent survey from the Hope Center for Basic Student Needs at Temple university found that 48 percent of students nationwide are experiencing housing insecurity, and 14 percent are experiencing homelessness. Five higher-ed leaders share strategies for addressing the crisis on campus.

In 2023, the state of California surveyed 66,000 students across 88 community colleges to understand their living situations. The results were stark: Nearly half of all students were food insecure.

The Chronicle partnered with Langer Research Associates to dive deeper into the mind-sets and motivations of those who choose college and those who build career and life skills in other ways. Here’s what our focus groups told us.

A recent conference at Vanderbilt University, centered around the value of liberal education and a core curriculum, brought together leaders from 80 institutions. This key takeaways from a conversation with Roosevelt Montás, formerly of Columbia University and now the John and Margaret Bard Professor in Liberal Education and Civic Life at Bard College, explores the role of general education and why we may be mistaken to assume it matters less to today’s students.

While four-year institutions have experienced large declines in interest in the humanities, community colleges are seeing an opposite trend. Learn what’s contributing to this increase in interest.

The job market stinks, and AI is gumming up application systems. So old-fashioned people skills are the new must-have asset.

Colorado is one of the most highly educated states in the country, but a 1992 constitutional amendment has contributed to low college-going rates among homegrown students.

Networking can be mysterious and scary. The University of Delaware teaches students how to build connections that support their education and increase career opportunities.

Watch our explainer on how colleges hope it can improve learning while increasing retention and graduation rates — and why the technology also poses serious risks.

For some students, the technology can effectively replace collaborative learning with classmates and office hours with professors.

Selena Bush, 26, is a senior at Roosevelt University, in Chicago, where she is majoring in biology. She’s had false starts in her college education and heavy family and financial burdens, working as many as 60 hours a week in multiple jobs on top of her full-time studies.

Felisia Tagaban Gaskin realized there are better ways to inspire and measure student success than focusing on grades and attendance rates. As the director of the University of Arizona’s Native Student Outreach, Access, and Resiliency (SOAR) program, Gaskin’s approach includes providing culturally responsive programming and building a strong on-campus community.