First Latina assistant director emphasizes community college's potential and importance of support systems.

Staff reported that the Rising Phoenix early-college program (since 2021) has admitted 244 cohort students, produced 9,733 college credits through UW-Green Bay and shown a 95% completion rate for recent cohorts; program leaders said many students continue to postsecondary education and families save roughly $8,300 $9,300 per student on tuition.

Pareto Mobility opens a 50,000-square-foot Plymouth facility to manufacture Step-Free™ low-floor commercial buses PLYMOUTH, Mich., Aug. 20, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Pareto Mobility LLC announced the opening of its 50,000-square-foot manufacturing and assembly facility at the Burroughs campus in Plymouth, Michigan. Led by first-generation immigrant and inventor AJ Kumar, the facility brings commercial bus manufacturing back to Michigan five years after Champion Bus ceased operations in the state in 2021. The facility will manufacture Pareto Mobility’s Step-Free™, America’s first fully flat, low-floor commercial bus, designed to make accessible transportation safer, more convenient, and more affordable for transit agencies, senior-living communities, healthcare […]

The Rutgers Board of Governors unanimously approved Dr. Tonya Smith-Jackson as Chancellor of Rutgers University–Newark, effective Aug. 1, 2025, after a yearlong search; she will serve a five-year term renewable at the pleasure of the president.

Legislators support expanding Idaho's college admissions program to boost first-generation student enrollment.

Alumna encourages students to persevere and never stop learning after overcoming childhood challenges.

Sen. Jill Dusen and University of Maine at Farmington witnesses urged a one‑year state appropriation to replace lost federal funding for the River Valley Upward Bound program, which served about 60 high‑school students in six western Maine schools.

Horizonte honors Proxima and Utah CNA for their support in student development and opportunities.