Black students and students with disabilities get suspended at higher rates, federal data show.

Racial disparities in school discipline are nothing new.

When two black men were arrested at a Philadelphia Starbucks where they had been waiting for a business meeting on April 12, the incident called renewed attention to the bias that racial minorities face in American society.

A timeline for a “Top Gun”-style teacher preparation program slated to start next year at UNLV has slowed down because of concerns from an anonymous donor.

College campuses are often a hotbed for innovation aimed at promoting student success. However, sometimes a simple text message is all it takes to point a struggling student in the right direction.

National Center for Institutional Diversity | During the 2013–2014 school year, I conducted a qualitative research study in a transfer high school in New York City.

Higher education institutions aren’t shying away from revamping their IT and embracing new technology. A Unit4 survey found that 73 percent of universities have changed their organizational IT structure to support student success in the last two years.

The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) College of Education has carefully cultivated relationships that generate support not only for its teacher candidates but for the needs of the Clark County School District (CCSD) and the broader surrounding community. The continuously evolving partnerships thrive thanks to a culture of collaboration around solving authentic problems in the community.

Nancy Lough, a professor in the UNLV education college and who has a sports-business background, said it’s a good move because the WNBA won’t compete against the NFL when the Raiders arrive in 2020 or the NHL Golden Knights in the Las Vegas market because the WNBA schedule is mostly in the summer.

If leading the country’s fifth-largest school district isn’t daunting enough, try doing so in the midst of a massive reorganization, a budget deficit of at least $60 million and a continual firestorm of pushback from unions and trustees.

As more states adopt funding formulas based on student performance — such as graduation rates and degrees awarded — higher education institutions are ­laser-focused on improving retention. Regardless of state policy, however, such strategies make fiscal sense: Enrolling a new student is more expensive than retaining a current one. To both control those costs and serve students more effectively, many institutions leverage data analytics.

Michele Kiraly has been a lawyer for two decades. But she is embarking on a new career path, one in which her current job has prepared her. "The best part of my job as a lawyer is educating my clients," she said.