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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.

Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, News, Race and Equity

Not many of South Carolina’s African-American high school grads attend its flagship campus

Avatar photo by Emrys Eller October 19, 2018April 8, 2021
Myiesha Robateau wasn’t offered enough financial aid to go to a private college and instead began this fall at the public University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, News

New data show some colleges are definitively unaffordable for many

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus October 18, 2018April 8, 2021
New T-shirts in the campus bookstore symbolize the University of Central Florida's identity as one of the state's Hispanic-Serving Institutions.
Posted inNews

As more Latinos go to college, schools vie to become Hispanic-Serving Institutions

Delece Smith-Barrow by Delece Smith-Barrow October 16, 2018April 8, 2021
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, Opinion, Race and Equity

OPINION: Faculty diversity? ‘When the guy in the white coat isn’t white, or a guy, every time’

Ansley Abraham by Ansley Abraham October 16, 2018April 8, 2021
Fifth graders Davonayshia Hollis, left, and Denaya Rippey, review a group entrepreneurial project for a parent-approved music device, developed in a mentorship program, Thursday May 19, 2016, at Brooklyn's P.S. 307 in New York. Startups and established tech companies are providing a crash course in entrepreneurship, sending engineers and designers into public schools to mentor students.
Posted inOpinion

Not enough students have mentors, and we must change that

Avatar photo by Andre Perry October 16, 2018April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, News

As the cost of college increases, more families are saving for it

Delece Smith-Barrow by Delece Smith-Barrow October 12, 2018April 8, 2021
Judge Brett Kavanaugh testifies during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on his nomination be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, on Capitol Hill September 27, 2018 in Washington, DC. A professor at Palo Alto University and a research psychologist at the Stanford University School of Medicine, Ford has accused Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her during a party in 1982 when they were high school students in suburban Maryland.
Posted inHigher Education

In the fight over Kavanaugh, echoes of a battle being waged on college campuses nationwide

by APM Reports October 9, 2018April 8, 2021
If Montana’s higher education property tax levy fails, “A lot of students aren’t going to be able to keep going to college,” says Kelly Armington, a University of Montana freshman majoring in communication studies.
Posted inNews

Montana vote becomes a national referendum on public confidence in higher ed

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus October 9, 2018April 8, 2021
Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Dickinson is among a growing number of colleges and universities that involve their faculty in watching for problems that could derail students — something not traditionally considered their role.
Posted inHigher Education, News

At a growing number of colleges, faculty get a new role: spotting troubled students

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus October 8, 2018April 8, 2021
Posted inNews

GED and other high school equivalency degrees drop by more than 40% nationwide since 2012

Avatar photo by Jill Barshay October 8, 2018April 8, 2021

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