Is college worth it? There is a powerful anxiety over this basic premise as higher education faces urgent challenges over access, affordability and degree completion. In recent years, U.S. colleges and universities have tried to address marketplace issues of real-world utility and competitiveness. They have asked whether we are meeting the nation’s workforce commitments in […]

Eugene Tobin
Eugene M. Tobin is a senior program officer for higher education and scholarship in the humanities at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and a former president of Hamilton College.