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.
Why are tribal college students slow to ask for financial aid?
A report about student experiences at tribal colleges and universities finds a lag in seeking aid, along with reluctance to take out loans
Going back to school after 50
A reader asks: How common is it for people seek out vocational training later in life?
Data analysis reveals keys to student success
With nearly 3 million datapoints, Trilogy Education says it knows exactly what it takes to keep students on track
The other victims when colleges decline or close: their hometowns
Growing financial woes in higher education threaten surrounding economies
College spending comes under closer scrutiny
A new website shows trustees, lawmakers, administrators and families how colleges spend their money
Going to school when your family is in hiding from ICE
ICE allowed a Jamaican family to stay in the country for years, then suddenly ordered them deported last summer. Now, as the family seeks sanctuary in a church, the children are struggling to maintain their grades and dreams of college
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
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U.S. continues to slip behind other countries in percentage of population with degrees
A lack of highly skilled workers leaves American employers unable to fill jobs
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
