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Covering Innovation & Inequality in Education

Category: Graduate Students

Attention to college costs, enrollment and debt is usually focused on undergraduates. But graduate students have become a vital source of revenue for universities, which have raised their tuition faster than for undergrads and added new fees. Graduate students now represent 40 percent of student debt — and are starting to fight back.

Posted inOpinion

OPINION: Tests are not the problem; how they are used can be

by Walt MacDonald October 28, 2020December 1, 2020

In a year unlike any in recent history, one thing will surely happen this winter as it always has. Students will finalize and submit applications to colleges and graduate schools across the nation. But this year, some students won’t submit any test scores at all. And after they receive their admissions decisions, they’ll never know […]

Posted inCoronavirus and Education

PROOF POINTS: Covid-19 has been bad for college enrollment — but awful for community college students

by Jill Barshay October 26, 2020April 8, 2021
Posted inOpinion

OPINION: Let’s not ignore how much international students matter to community colleges

by Dan Kent September 18, 2020April 1, 2021
Posted inHigher Education

Amid pandemic, graduate student workers are winning long-sought contracts

by Jon Marcus July 19, 2020April 8, 2021
Posted inNews

Another pandemic-related threat to universities: falling numbers of graduate students

by Matt Krupnick May 13, 2020April 8, 2021
Posted inNews

Spotlight swings to for-profit middlemen that may be driving up the cost of online higher education

by Jillian Berman September 19, 2019April 8, 2021
Posted inDivided We Learn, Graduate Students, Higher Education, News

A few universities help black and Hispanic students reach and finish graduate school

by Melba Newsome August 9, 2019April 8, 2021
Posted inGraduate Students, Higher Education, News, Universities, Inc.

Already stretched grad students rebel against rising and often surreptitious fees

by Jon Marcus August 2, 2019April 8, 2021
Posted inNews

STUDENT VOICE: Universities overlook graduate students’ mental health

by Aya Waller-Bey April 29, 2019April 8, 2021
Posted inNews

Universities increasingly turn to graduate programs to balance their books

by Jon Marcus April 23, 2019April 8, 2021

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