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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 inColumnists

To un-muzzle upstart Negros, we need black-owned news media

Avatar photo by Andre Perry January 22, 2019April 8, 2021
Career advising
Posted inHigher Education, News, Solutions, Universities, Inc.

Some colleges start using their long winter breaks to help students plan for jobs

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus January 20, 2019April 8, 2021
Angel Carter, a senior at Tulane University, leads the Green Wave Ambassadors, the tour guide group for the admissions office.
Posted inHigher Education, News

America’s colleges struggle to envision the future of diversity on campus

Avatar photo by Laura Pappano January 16, 2019September 13, 2021
Adley Nyakora, a freshman at Minnesota State University, Mankato, plays Operation, while Cornelius Bright, Elijah Calderon-Pitchford, Aburrahman Guantai, and Jordan Headley look on.
Posted inDivided We Learn, Higher Education, News, Race and Equity, Solutions

Minnesota has a persistent higher-ed gap: Are new efforts making a difference?

by Kelly Field January 15, 2019April 8, 2021
A registered nurse speaks with a new mother before her discharge from Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia. The proportion of nurses with bachelor’s degrees is up from 44 percent to 57 percent since 2004, but still far short of the goal of reaching 80 percent by next year set by the Institute of Medicine to deal with the increasing complexity of healthcare.
Posted inHigher Education, News

10 years later, goal of getting more Americans through college is way behind schedule

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus January 14, 2019April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, News

OPINION: Engineering programs still exclude black students — 4 ways to change this

Karl Reid by Karl Reid January 8, 2019April 8, 2021
Posted inNews

The problem with high-stakes testing and women in STEM

Avatar photo by Jill Barshay January 7, 2019April 8, 2021
Educational Opportunity Programs
Posted inNews

How Educational Opportunity Programs graduate first-generation college students

by Wayne D’Orio January 7, 2019April 8, 2021
foster care and higher education
Posted inHigher Education, Opinion, Student Voices

STUDENT VOICE: ‘I rarely had the chance to go to school while living with my biological parents’

Rosemary Gullett by Rosemary Gullett January 3, 2019April 8, 2021
The Chill Room at GSoft, a technology firm in Montreal that features over-the-top amenities to recruit and keep employees at a time of intense competition for talent.
Posted inNews

How one city has been tackling the swelling scourge of brain drain

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus December 31, 2018April 8, 2021

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