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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 inHigher Education, News, Universities, Inc.

A college degree, or your money back

by APM Reports February 26, 2018April 8, 2021
Hunter College junior Raymi Echavarria is spending the summer making sure students from her old high school in Brooklyn make it to college this fall.
Posted inNews

New research offers hope to first-generation college grads

Avatar photo by Jill Barshay February 26, 2018April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, Opinion, Universities, Inc.

OPINION: America’s colleges and universities have a serious revenue problem

Brian C. Mitchell by Brian C. Mitchell February 22, 2018April 8, 2021
Posted inColumnists

Students are zapping their brains to get ahead in school — but evidence for the practice is limited

Avatar photo by Daisy Yuhas February 21, 2018April 8, 2021
UNITED STATES - FEBRUARY 19: Washington, D.C., area students and supporters protest against gun violence with a lie-in outside of the White House on Monday, Feb. 19, 2018, after 17 people were killed in a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., last week.
Posted inElementary to High School

Marjory Stoneman Douglas students give legislators a civics lesson

Avatar photo by Andre Perry February 20, 2018April 8, 2021
Posted inCommunity Colleges

How to help students avoid the remedial ed trap

Avatar photo by Jill Barshay February 19, 2018April 8, 2021
Loni Bordoloi Pazich
Posted inHigher Education, Opinion

OPINION: Can technology save the liberal arts?

Loni Bordoloi Pazich by Loni Bordoloi Pazich February 13, 2018April 8, 2021
The dedication ceremony of the LGBTQ Rainbow Freedom Flag at The Stonewall National Monument, marking the first time the LGBTQ Rainbow Flag will be displayed permanently in New York City.
Posted inColumnists

Christian conservatives are trying to turn bigoted policies into higher education law

Avatar photo by Andre Perry February 13, 2018April 8, 2021
Protesters at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in March 2014.
Posted inHigher Education, News, Universities, Inc.

Overwhelmed by student debt, many low-income students drop out

by APM Reports February 12, 2018April 8, 2021
David Andy, who is enrolled in a program in advanced manufacturing at Metro State University in Denver designed in collaboration with employers.
Posted inHigher Education, News, Solutions, Universities, Inc.

Worker shortage spurs uncharacteristic partnerships connecting colleges, business

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus February 9, 2018April 8, 2021

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