Preparing students to ‘compete at the highest level’ Charlene Brown-McKenzie, alumna and Georgetown’s senior associate dean of students and executive director of access and success, talks to THE FEED about her experience as a Georgetown student and the most pressing issues shaping her work today. Read > Immigrant students find support through North Carolina’s dual enrollment program A North Carolina dual enrollment program that helps high school students earn college credit fears it will be targeted for its efforts to make education accessible for all students, including undocumented students. Read > Making ‘a world of difference’ to rural students An increasing number of states are allowing their community colleges to offer bachelor’s degree programs, creating new avenues to higher education for rural students. Read > Berkley family’s $25M gift commitment to transform, rename Georgetown’s School of Nursing Thanks to a transformative $25 million gift commitment from the Berkley Family Foundation, Georgetown will rename its nursing school to the Berkley School of Nursing and expand the school’s enrollment, financial aid offerings, faculty, staff, and student resources. Read > Congress could make paying for college even more complicated > Colleges invest in range of basic needs programs > New York’s adult learners can now attend community college for free > Amid DEI crackdown, students hold their own affinity graduations > How could cuts to the Education Department impact HBCUs? > Support services for student parents at community colleges make all the difference > Three focus areas for driving national attainment among adult learners > Actor, humanitarian, and philanthropist donates $1 million to Talladega College > Morgan State University’s bold journey toward elite R1 research status >