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Colleges and universities—including 2-year college (community college), certificate programs, advanced vocational training, 4-year college (bachelor programs), graduate programs, and professional programs—place a prominent role in promoting the health of young adults as well as non-traditional students (for example, adults seeking a career change or retired individuals seeking enrichment). Boosting educational attainment beyond high school has been more prominent in recent years. Given the future of work and the increasing role of technology, education beyond high school becomes even more relevant for workers to compete in the labor market. These sites have extensive programming and structures to provide healthcare and promote healthy lifestyles. Initiatives such as Healthy Campus 2020 (American College Health Association, 2020) empower schools to improve health and well-being by creating a culture where social and physical environments promote health. Health promotion initiatives at colleges and universities need to be part of how the sites assertively address persistent racial/ethnic gaps in educational attainment. Even as we see higher rates of attainment among the younger working-age population, gaps among particular components of that group are also larger in spite of so many efforts to close them (Prescott, 2019).