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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 inColumnists, Education by the Numbers, Future of Learning, Higher Education, Proof Points

Newer studies say online instruction neither harms nor benefits the average university student

Avatar photo by Jill Barshay March 23, 2015April 8, 2021
Posted inAndre Perry, Columnists, Higher Education, New Orleans, The South

Why ‘The Cotton Picker’s Minstrel Review’ is part of higher ed history

Avatar photo by Andre Perry March 17, 2015April 8, 2021
Hamilton College President Joan Stewart was the first in her family to go to college, and feels strongly about expanding opportunity for low-income students.
Posted inHigher Education, News, Rural Education

Can a small, rural college that eliminated merit aid survive — and thrive? Hamilton College president makes the case

Avatar photo by Liz Willen March 17, 2015February 9, 2022
Posted inColumnists, Education by the Numbers, Higher Education, Proof Points

The student debt crisis may be largely about the smallest borrowers

Avatar photo by Jill Barshay March 16, 2015April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, Opinion

How liberal arts offer the very ‘workplace skills’ critics demand

Avatar photo by David Maxwell March 12, 2015April 8, 2021
Arizona State University, whose president says it has become a model of how higher education can solve many of its problems.
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, News

Is Arizona State University the model for the new American university?

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus March 11, 2015April 8, 2021
Demonstrators struggle with police with a barricade in front of a closed off building on the University of California, Berkeley on the Berkeley, Calif., campus, Friday,. Nov. 20, 2009, during a demonstration against university fee hikes and layoffs.
Posted inColumnists, Higher Education

Are public universities becoming bastions of privilege?

Stephen Burd by Stephen Burd March 11, 2015April 8, 2021
Posted inColumnists, Education by the Numbers, Higher Education, Proof Points

Could it be that the teaching profession isn’t pink enough?

Avatar photo by Jill Barshay March 9, 2015April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, News

Report: Community colleges are slowly improving student support

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus March 9, 2015April 8, 2021
Graduates line up for their procession before the Berkshire Community College commencement ceremony at Tanglewood in Lenox, Mass. on Friday, May 30, 2014.
Posted inCommunity Colleges, Higher Education, News

How a state where community colleges have been an afterthought is turning that around

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus March 6, 2015April 8, 2021

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