The authors contend that the current trajectory of higher education lands our society more or less where the history of higher education began: a haven for the white and wealthy. They maintain the position that in order to intervene in this situation, higher education must be able to identify not only roots of its affliction but its remedies. The essays in the forum call on communication and instruction scholars to address the student needs that begin beyond, but certainly impact performance in, the classroom. Communication and instruction scholarship has historically shied away from the broader set of social concerns connected to education, instead, focusing on classroom management and learning. However, higher education and, indeed, all of society will have to reckon with the type of world that is much poorer--economically, socially, and spiritually--if student precarity is not forcibly addressed within and beyond our classrooms. As such, the authors encourage scholars in the field to begin programs of research to address student precarity.