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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 inHigher Education, News, Universities, Inc.

“I never want to be in a neighborhood where I’m shot at again.”

by APM Reports May 7, 2018April 8, 2021
Rutgers Newark sophomore Stacy Tyndall, 19, laughs at an "Orange Is the New Black"-themed wall of dormitory rules in her campus residence hall. Tyndall, a criminal justice major who wants to be a judge, grew up 15 minutes from the campus.
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, News, Solutions

How one university is luring coveted honors students with social justice

by Matt Krupnick May 2, 2018April 8, 2021
CAIRO, Oct. 9, 2011 — Seventeen people were killed in clashes between security forces and Coptic Christians protesting against an attack on a church.
Posted inOpinion

OPINION: “We are facing a fight over intellectual diversity”

Daniel Armanios by Daniel Armanios May 1, 2018April 8, 2021
Students walk on the campus of historical Morehouse College in Atlanta Ga.
Posted inColumnists

We won’t have any black Mark Zuckerbergs or Bill Gates till we do this

Avatar photo by Andre Perry May 1, 2018April 8, 2021
Wes McEntee works on one of several manufacturing machines students use at Vermont Technical College.
Posted inNews

Colleges are adding programs in a once-decimated industry — manufacturing

Delece Smith-Barrow by Delece Smith-Barrow April 30, 2018April 8, 2021
Automation will boost demand for science-and-tech skills as well as soft skills such as critical thinking, according to a report from the Economist Intelligence Unit.
Posted inNews

Study: The U.S. isn’t doing enough to prepare students for the automation age

Avatar photo by Caroline Preston April 25, 2018April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, Opinion

OPINION: Standardized tests offer ‘a neutral yardstick’ in college admissions

Jack Buckley by Jack Buckley April 24, 2018April 8, 2021
Garret Morgan is training as an ironworker near Seattle, and already has a job that pays him $50,000 a year.
Posted inNews

High-paying jobs go begging while high school grads line up for bachelor’s degrees

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus April 23, 2018April 8, 2021
Posted inNews

Are America’s colleges promoting social mobility?

by APM Reports April 23, 2018April 8, 2021
Oil references are everywhere at Williston State College, at the heart of North Dakota’s Bakken oilfield.
Posted inCommunity Colleges, Divided We Learn, Higher Education, News, Rural Education

For rural colleges, good vocational teachers are hard to find

by Matt Krupnick April 23, 2018February 9, 2022

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