Divided We Learn
Once the way up the socioeconomic ladder in America, higher education may now be deepening the divisions. First-generation, low-income students disproportionately wind up at campuses with the fewest resources; their wealthier counterparts, at the best. And, contradicting public promises, universities are raising their net prices faster for low-income than higher-income students.
Rural colleges aren’t supplying the workers rural businesses and agriculture need
Both sides concede they don’t often talk to each other, resulting in a widening skills gap
As jobs grow hard to fill, businesses join the drive to push rural residents toward college
Companies need more people with degrees but struggle to find them
Minnesota has a persistent higher-ed gap: Are new efforts making a difference?
Unless more residents get to and through college, the state won’t be able to fill jobs that require higher education
How Educational Opportunity Programs graduate first-generation college students
A wildly successful boot camp combines tough academics, strict rules and minimal sleep
Some colleges extend scholarships and other help to rural high school grads
They see benefits to diversity — and their own bottom lines — in having rural students
COLUMN: Two new documentaries showcase a long and winding road to college
‘Personal Statement,’ and ‘Unlikely’ hit the film festival circuits with stories of real-life obstacles and struggles
How the Georgia governor’s race could influence college access there
Report finds Georgia’s public system has two tiers, limiting access for lower-income students
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Not many of South Carolina’s African-American high school grads attend its flagship campus
A video report with University of South Carolina students and the college president
New data show some colleges are definitively unaffordable for many
Even as net prices begin to fall at some schools, many families are priced out
OPINION: Faculty diversity? ‘When the guy in the white coat isn’t white, or a guy, every time’
Ways that campuses can increase the number of teachers who look like their students