Higher Education
Even as policymakers push to increase the proportion of Americans with degrees, university and college students and their families contend with ever-rising costs and debt, low success rates, and growing concern about equal access to a higher education. We cover the causes of these problems, and the innovations being tried to solve them.
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
OPINION: 3 ways that colleges can support underrepresented students after the Harvard case
A chief diversity officer explains why YouTube counts as an idea
Switching majors is adding time and tuition to the already high cost of college
Despite the spiraling cost of the investment, some students commit to it without a plan
COLUMN: For safer schools, we need more hugs, not more guns
Students who feel disconnected from their community are more likely to lash out
OPINION: Don’t trust university accreditors to stop for-profit schools from scamming veterans
For-profit college accreditor’s poor track record on G.I. Bill money
Hundreds of thousands of people could lose their legal status. One hopes to graduate with his college degree first
If the Trump administration has its way, Jose would be forced from the U.S. just a few months before graduation.
OPINION: Election 2018’s winners include campus activism, diversity — and polarization
Good and bad news about what college-student voting could mean for higher education
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From foster care to college
Western Michigan University is one of several colleges that have started programs to help foster youth earn degrees
STUDENT VOICE: To stop campus rape culture, fix sex ed in high school
‘Even in our liberal bubble, no one taught us about consent’
OPINION: Universities around the world must do more to help refugees
How one European business school is working to meet the global challenge
