For the last decade, psychiatric hospitalization rates for children and adolescents have significantly increased, taking many students out of school to receive appropriate care (Clemens et al., 2011; Hall & DuBois, 2020; Leeb et al., 2020). Furthermore, recent trends show that students experience considerably shorter psychiatric stays focused…

The population of adult learners with Some College, No Credential (SCNC) has risen over the years to over 40 million individuals. A smaller subset of this population has debt that they owe their institutions directly in addition to state, federal, or private loans. As of 2020, approximately 6.6 million students owed more than $15 billion in…

Background: Between 70 million and 100 million Americans have a record of interaction with the criminal legal system, a group facing stigma and discrimination in civic participation, housing, employment, and education. Justice-impacted people face collateral consequences in the community, making reentry programs essential to success at…