Confidence in higher education is declining across the United States. Fewer Americans say a college degree is very important: A growing share believe the system is headed in the wrong direction, particularly when it comes to preparing students for employment. Not surprisingly, college enrollment has fallen in recent years. And nowhere are the stakes of […]
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.
