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News4’s Aimee Cho introduces viewers to the young leaders who are paving the way for the future of Asian American studies.

College education during incarceration helps people become less likely to re-offend upon leaving prison, and gives access to better job opportunities. By 2023, formerly incarcerated people will be able to access Pell Grants toward their education. Margaret Dizerega of the Vera Institute of Justice explains.

BillyChat, a chatbot run from Cal Poly Pomona, can respond to students’ text-messaged questions about exams, costs, financial aid and more.

About half of college students screened in a recent Boston University study were found to have depression or anxiety. It’s a sign of the toll the pandemic is taking on millions cut off from human connections and, for many, their goals and aspirations. NBCLX storyteller Cody Broadway looks from college campuses to social platforms like TikTok at the impact social...

Mariah Guzman, a graduate student at the University of Illinois, and Chancellor Robert Jones gave NBC Chicago an inside look at their high-tech efforts to keep students on the Urbana-Champaign campus safe from COVID-19, including twice a week saliva tests and contact tracing via Bluetooth. One week after opening its doors, the school had an outbreak anyway.

A group of young Republicans who call themselves Gen Z GOP are aiming to reshape the party for their generation. These Washington, D.C., college students all identify as Republican. They don’t, however, feel like they’re at home in the GOP under President Trump. Here’s how they’re trying to change that.

American University students Meredith Reilly and Zachary Houdek drove from Washington D.C. to their home state of Texas to cast their ballots for the 2020 election. The two first-time voters joined LX News to talk about their journey to make sure their votes count.

As college students continue to head back to school for the fall semester, The Hotel at the University of Maryland and others are offering an extended-stay package for students which provides flexibility and stability of lodging during the pandemic that on-campus living may not.

On Monday, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill announced all undergraduate in-person classes will shift to remote learning after four student housing units reported coronavirus outbreaks. Noah Monroe is a current freshman at UNC who said his friends are scared of getting sick.

Princeton graduates Adam Bragg and Lane Russell created ‘The U Experience,’ a new program for college students who will miss out on the traditional college experience and allows them to come together on a single campus and provides them with an offline community experience.

LX News host Ashley Holt talked to a college student from Illinois, a high school student from Georgia and an eighth grader from Indiana about returning to school in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.

U.S. colleges are asking returning students to promise to help contain the coronavirus.

Laith Mekouar was a freshman at James Madison University when the coronavirus pandemic closed his campus back in March. Mekouar discusses how his college experience will change in the fall and how he feels about returning to school with coronavirus cases rising.

Texas’s Tarleton State University and other small schools are getting a boost in enrollment as the coronavirus pandemic makes traveling to large, distant schools less appealing to students. The university’s president James Hurley joins LX News to discuss the trend.

University of Minnesota student Jael Kerandi convinced her school to terminate its contractual relationship with the Minneapolis police department following the death of George Floyd.

A number of colleges and universities are making the SATs optional for admissions next year after the coronavirus pandemic forced the cancellation of the standardized tests this spring. This comes after years of criticism that the SAT puts low-income and minority students at a disadvantage.

As seniors, Linda and Ali never expected their college career to end this away. Heading home months before graduation and told not to return.

The increasing cost of tuition has pushed some college students into desperate situations. Satchel Lee talked to college students in her hometown to uncover the extreme scenarios young people put themselves through to afford college.

Bowie State University is opening a new food pantry to combat college student hunger.

Bowie State University partnered with Food Lion to offer tudents healthy food options.