College

A&M-San Antonio’s Jaguar Promise covers tuition, fees, and a book stipend, for Texas residents in the top 35% of their class if their family makes $70,000 or less.

As universities cut back on programs and college price tags rise for students, should schools focus on projected salaries and job skills, or something more?

In the last 10 years, Texas has closed a total of 750 polling locations — the most of any state.

Women's colleges have adapted admissions policies for a generation that increasingly identifies as nonbinary. Hollins University's exclusion of nonbinary applicants has raised hackles.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Hank Nuwer about concerns that a pandemic-induced lull in hazing-related deaths may reverse as college students return to campus.

The isolation and uncertainty of the pandemic is driving the dramatic drop in numbers, threatening the already precarious economies of these areas and widening their socioeconomic drift.

With fall final exams less than a month away, San Antonio’s colleges and universities have begun enrolling students for the spring semester.To help reduce the risk of exposure to the virus caused by holiday travel, several area colleges are finishing the fall semester virtually after the Thanksgiving break.

Alamo Colleges introduced its free-tuition program AlamoPROMISE in 2020. Twenty-five San Antonio high schools participated. The district is now inviting high-school seniors of the class of 2021 to "save a seat" for next year's no-cost-college cohort.

More students than expected are enrolled at the University of Texas at San Antonio this fall, defying state and national predictions that economic uncertainty and a preference for the traditional college experience would cause fewer students to enroll during the coronavirus pandemic.

San Antonio’s community college system is launching a new free tuition program this year called AlamoPROMISE. Several other cities, including Dallas, Tyler and Houston have similar Promise programs.Launching the program during a pandemic has been a challenge, but it has also shown how much the scholarship is needed.