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Covering Innovation & Inequality in Education

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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

The looming decline of the public research university

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus October 17, 2017April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, Opinion

OPINION: Stop driving kids crazy — A four-year college degree isn’t the only answer

James E. Rosenbaum by James E. Rosenbaum October 17, 2017April 8, 2021
Clark Atlanta University students Destiny Rudolph, Delaina Mims, Charles Finch and Jewel Cannon meet on the steps of the Joseph W. Woodruff Library, which is shared among four Atlanta colleges and universities. Higher-education institutions increasingly are pooling their resources to cut costs.
Posted inHigher Education, News, Solutions, Universities, Inc.

Colleges and universities join together to survive enrollment and financial problems

Avatar photo by Timothy Pratt October 13, 2017April 8, 2021
A student at Guttman Community College in New York City reads before the start of a class. Momentum is building to give associate degrees to students who have left community colleges but earned enough credits to get one.
Posted inCommunity Colleges, Higher Education, News, Solutions

States connect students with degrees they don’t know they’ve earned

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus October 13, 2017April 8, 2021
Posted inOpinion

OPINION: Do we kill the liberal arts when we demonize people for their ideas?

Michael S. Roth by Michael S. Roth October 12, 2017April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, News, Race and Equity

Latino college students are falling behind whites and blacks, new research shows

Avatar photo by Meredith Kolodner October 11, 2017April 8, 2021
student parents
Posted inOpinion

OPINION: Most single moms who enter college don’t finish; here are four ways to reverse this shocking trend

Robyn M.L. Young by Robyn M.L. Young October 10, 2017April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, News, Universities, Inc.

Like their students, colleges are vastly increasing the amount they borrow

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus October 10, 2017April 8, 2021
Questions that were posted ahead of a two-day conference on free speech at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio.
Posted inHigher Education, Student Voices

STUDENT VOICE: Conservative students should get to voice opinions on campus

Sophie Alexander by Sophie Alexander October 9, 2017April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, Opinion, Universities, Inc.

OPINION: After federal ​audit demands $712M repayment, Western Governors University president defends innovative approach

Scott Pulsipher by Scott Pulsipher October 3, 2017April 8, 2021

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