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For many students, the journey to college begins with stress, not excitement. They’re left asking fundamental questions: Do I belong in college? Can I afford it? Where do I even begin?

Workforce Pell takes effect on July 1 this year. The expansion of the entitlement program opens access to many more Americans seeking high-quality, short-term training programs that lead to in-demand jobs.

Eiziah Lieblein, incoming freshman at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee dreams big, thanks in part to securing an early spot at University of Wisconsin–Madison.

The Federal Work-Study (FWS) program provides more than $1 billion in support annually to more than 450,000 college students with financial need nationwide.

State-led workforce investments are emerging as flexible and consequential policy levers during a time of economic change.

The Pell Grant program is the federal government’s most effective investment in college affordability, but the share of college costs covered by the grant is at an all-time low.

The Direct Admit program is expanding statewide in California. Hear how it’s opening opportunities for students like Milana Waggoner and her peers at Cal State in San Bernardino.

Nationally, 82 percent of high schools offer dual enrollment, and about one-third of students take at least one dual enrollment course by graduation.

If millions of adults say they want more education or training, why aren’t more of them enrolling?

We live in a world where language is regularly weaponized for political, economic, or other purposes. One of the best examples of that in recent years has been the way in which critics of higher education have seized on the term “liberal arts” to confuse and distort what is behind the term.

Interest in how community colleges can improve short-term occupational training programs is gaining momentum.

This month’s episode, Dakota investigates the creation of the A Stronger Nation data tool, and talks with Tom Harnisch of SHEEO on states that are making exemplary progress on attainment and how current state leaders are contending with ROI and changes to the social safety net.

Workforce education has inspired plenty of enthusiasm lately, but enthusiasm can’t bridge foundational skills gaps.

What if the problem with higher education isn’t that students have lost faith in college?

Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, arrives at a moment of profound uncertainty about the future of human work and human purpose. The document is formally rooted in Catholic social teaching, but its central questions belong to everyone: What does it mean to live a meaningful life in an age of intelligent machines? What responsibilities do societies have to workers displaced by technology? And how do we ensure that innovation strengthens our magnificent humanity instead of diminishing it?

It is estimated that about a fifth of undergraduates in college are parents. A disproportionate share of student parents attends community colleges, which have more flexible programs that cater to adult students.

The United States has nearly 4,000 degree-granting four-year colleges and universities.

Federal supports like the Pell Grant and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) are critical lifelines that help millions of students from low-income backgrounds afford college and meet basic needs each…

Over a quarter of U.S. adults between the ages of 25 and 64—representing 41.7 million people—intend to enroll in some type of higher education program or training within the next two years, says this report from the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning and CollegeAPP.