The year I became an international student at Princeton University, Donald Trump became president of the United States. Back then, I considered myself a mere observer of American politics; as a citizen of South Korea, I thought, that wasn’t my fight to fight. Yet I still had the gnawing sense that, under a president who openly disparaged immigrants, […]
Category: 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.