More college students are dropping out during Covid. It could get worse

The share of students returning for a second year of college fell in 2020 to the lowest level since 2012, and uncertainty about the virus could deepen the dropout crisis

College took a back seat the moment Izzy B called the suicide hotline.

Izzy, 18, had spent her senior year of high school online. Then she'd gone straight to online summer school at a local community college near Denver. When in-person classes there started this past fall, she was glad to be back in the classroom and finally experiencing some real college life.