Support nonprofit news

$10/mo
$15/mo 
OTHER
DONATE

  • Newsletters
  • About
  • Donate
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • RSS Feed
Skip to content
The Hechinger Report

The Hechinger Report

Covering Innovation & Inequality in Education

  • Newsletters
  • About
  • Donate

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 inNews

Half of all Mississippi college graduates have loan debt

Avatar photo by Jackie Mader August 28, 2018April 8, 2021
The Old Manse, the centerpiece of Arkansas Baptist College in Little Rock. Federal data show that of the 201 low-income freshmen who began at the college in 2011, none had graduated six years later.
Posted inNews

Billions in federal financial aid is going to students who aren’t graduating

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus August 27, 2018April 23, 2021
Posted inHigher Education

Is college enrollment among older adults increasing? Depends who you ask

Delece Smith-Barrow by Delece Smith-Barrow August 24, 2018April 8, 2021
Alana Wolf was accepted to Cornell University, which told her to go somewhere else as a freshman and come back as a sophomore under a little-known policy called conditional admission. She spent her freshman year at Ithaca College and will enter Cornell this fall.
Posted inNews

Seeking advantage, colleges are increasingly admitting students as sophomores

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus August 23, 2018April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, Opinion

OPINION: ‘I thought everyone else deserved to be there and I didn’t’

by Andrew Moe August 21, 2018April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, News

Are colleges helping Americans move up?

by APM Reports August 20, 2018April 8, 2021
quality of college
Posted inNews

Critics warn that well-meaning reforms may be lowering the quality of college

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus August 17, 2018April 8, 2021
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, News

For students teetering on the edge financially, micro-grants help them finish college

Avatar photo by Emrys Eller August 17, 2018April 8, 2021
student loan forgiveness
Posted inHigher Education, News

What happens when a borrower defaults on student loans

Delece Smith-Barrow by Delece Smith-Barrow August 17, 2018April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, Opinion

OPINION: Embracing the uncertain, scary future — with a liberal arts degree

Karl Voss by Karl Voss August 14, 2018April 8, 2021

Posts pagination

Newer posts 1 … 102 103 104 105 106 … 225 Older posts
  • About
  • Topics
  • Interactives
  • Use Our Stories
  • Corrections
  • Newsletters
  • Sponsorship
  • Jobs
© 2025 The Hechinger Report Powered by Newspack
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • RSS Feed