In an era where internet access is as essential as water and electricity, many residents in Los Angeles remain digitally left behind due to rising costs, poor service quality, and discrimination. Our latest report delves into the growing movement for publicly owned internet services, highlighting successful municipal broadband for all initiatives across the nation.

The Michelson Institute for Intellectual Property’s HBCU IP Futures Collaborative actively integrates IP education into curricula and fosters communities of practice among faculty. By empowering students with the knowledge to protect and commercialize their innovations, these efforts prepare future leaders and enhance the competitiveness of HBCUs in the global innovation ecosystem. The HBCU IP Futures Collaborative Impact Report provides a comprehensive analysis of the progress and impact achieved through these initiatives.

This analysis of digital textbook billing practices and costs includes more schools than our previous report, and includes a more detailed look at contracts with third-party bookstore operators. This review supports the previous finding that many automatic textbook billing practices may not be in students’ best financial interests.

As automatic textbook billing programs spread in institutions of higher learning, this small-scale survey serves as an invitation to repeat this work at a larger scale and in more diverse settings. Most importantly, it is an invitation to center the experience and perspectives of students in the policy decisions that impact them directly.

This fact sheet highlights the state of CA connectivity, including depicting the increasing percentage of households connected but the persisting disparities in connectivity along racial/ethnic, socioeconomic, and geographic boundaries.

This research brief—informed by interviews with college students—sets forth reasons why SNAP student eligibility expansions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic were so vital to college students and why decision-makers should build on these lessons and eliminate the “work-to-eat rule” so that more college students can focus on learning rather than being distracted by hunger.