A bridge program to ensure that every student can thrive This year, Georgetown’s Community Scholars Program invited its largest cohort of incoming first-generation, first-year students to the Hilltop to take classes, build friendships, and engage in enriching experiences that initiate the four-year academic intervention program. Read > Colleges prepare for changing immigration policies during President-elect Trump’s second term U.S. colleges and student advocacy groups are working to engage and advise international and undocumented students and students from mixed-status families before President-elect Trump returns for his second term. Read > Fewer 18-year-olds enrolled in college this fall A new analysis finds that college enrollment among 18-year-olds fell by 5% after the troubled rollout of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid and the end of race-conscious college admissions. Read > Rural students have fewer options as colleges eliminate programs Struggling rural colleges and universities are ending dozens of programs, leaving local students with fewer choices than their urban and suburban counterparts. Read > National college completion rate ticks up to 61.1% > Research points to COVID’s ‘long tail’ on school graduation rates > Colleges rush to unveil financial aid expansion plans > Facing legal threats, colleges back off race-based programs > A guaranteed income program for community college students > 4-year colleges ride the dual-enrollment wave > How DC’s only public university wants to reimagine itself > Few Va. universities have studied food insecurity among students, though 80% say it’s an issue > UCLA bucks post–affirmative action diversity trends > Community college classes for high school students explode in Idaho, Indiana >