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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

For safer schools, we need more hugs, not more guns

Avatar photo by Andre Perry December 4, 2018April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, Opinion

OPINION: Don’t trust university accreditors to stop for-profit schools from scamming veterans

Matthew Boulay by Matthew Boulay December 4, 2018April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education

Hundreds of thousands of people could lose their legal status. One hopes to graduate with his college degree first

by APM Reports December 3, 2018April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, Opinion

OPINION: Election 2018’s winners include campus activism, diversity — and polarization

Nancy Thomas by Nancy Thomas December 3, 2018April 8, 2021
Western Michigan sophomore Kayla Mayes has been in foster care for as long as she can remember. The Seita Scholars Program gives her academic, financial and emotional support.
Posted inNews

From foster care to college

Delece Smith-Barrow by Delece Smith-Barrow December 1, 2018April 8, 2021
“Cast of 1985 coming-of-age movie “The Breakfast Club.”
Posted inHigher Education, Opinion, Student Voices

STUDENT VOICE: To stop campus rape culture, fix sex ed in high school

Sara Tabin by Sara Tabin November 29, 2018April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, Immigration, Opinion, Universities, Inc.

OPINION: Universities around the world must do more to help refugees

Loïck Roche by Loïck Roche November 27, 2018April 8, 2021
more relevant
Posted inHigher Education, News

Making higher education more relevant and worthwhile

Avatar photo by Tara García Mathewson November 26, 2018April 8, 2021
veteran students
Posted inHigher Education, News

At top colleges that train America’s elite, veterans are an almost invisible minority

by Brian Mockenhaupt November 25, 2018April 8, 2021
Posted inHigher Education, Opinion, Student Voices

STUDENT VOICE: Why I opted against a co-ed college

Abigail Ojeda by Abigail Ojeda November 20, 2018April 8, 2021

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