A community engagement strategist at UNT Health Fort Worth, Annabel Luna-Smith is a connector linking institutions to residents, patients to services and families to resources.
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Posted inFort Worth
Seed to skillet: Tarleton State Fort Worth cultivates community with its veggie tales
With help from Conundrum Farms, a small Tarleton State garden is growing fresh food, student connections and meals beyond campus.
Posted inSan Antonio
OLLU closes its Center for Mexican American Studies and Research, leaders say shift expands access
The center’s space and its collections will be preserved, officials said, and its work will be divided among multiple departments.
Posted inCalifornia
Newsom promised to help Californians build new careers. Now, the money is running out
Gov Gavin Newsom made job training and the creation of a master plan for career education part of his agenda. Now, key workforce initiatives may get no new funding.
Posted inChicago
A quarter million student borrowers in Illinois need a new repayment plan. What to know as SAVE plan ends
Hundreds of thousands of borrowers in Illinois, and millions more nationwide, need to select a new student loan repayment plan if they don’t want to end up on a more expensive plan by default.
Posted inNews About Open Campus
Open Campus and The HEA Group launch the Certificate Earnings Explorer
Open Campus has partnered with The HEA Group, a research and policy organization, to create the Certificate Earnings Explorer.
Posted inPittsburgh
Two years after Gaza encampment, expelled Pitt student awaits his day in court
Muhammad Ali is among the last two participants in the 2024 encampments on Pitt’s campus facing unresolved criminal charges. Judges rejected his arguments of selective prosecution, and his plans are in limbo pending a September trial date.
Posted inSan Antonio
Federal student loan changes cause delays, recalculations and uncertainty for students and universities
“Students are already doing their [enrollment and housing] deposits and they’re moving into that status and it’s kind of scary that they’re giving deposits without knowing what their full financial aid picture is like.”
Posted inTexas
New hearing sought in fight over Texas law that gave undocumented students in-state tuition
Advocates want a federal appeals court to allow them to fight for the Texas Dream Act. The law giving eligible undocumented students in-state tuition at colleges was blocked last year.
Posted inOhio
Pool noodles, ladders and memories: What Notre Dame College left behind
The Northeast Ohio campus is one of two dozen nonprofit colleges nationwide that have closed over the past few years.