Higher education affordability

university research

Think universities are making lots of money from inventions? Think again

Some institutions are working to improve weak returns from licensing and patents

Universities, Inc.

by Jon Marcus  – January 17, 2020

John Jay graduation

COLUMN: A ‘wildly intrusive’ way to help older college students get their degrees

An experiment at John Jay College to get seniors over the final hurdle to graduation is worth watching

Columnists

by  Jill Barshay  – January 6, 2020

GI Bill benefits

Scrutiny of colleges that get billions in GI Bill money remains mired in bureaucracy

As veterans try to get higher educations, many complain that no one is looking out for them

Student Veterans

by Jasper Craven  – December 11, 2019

High School Reform

Experts often urge educators to catch struggling students "before it's too late," but high schools are charged with educating all students, regardless of their past. The Hechinger Report is spending two years exploring high schools successful with diverse groups or trying innovative approaches.

Is California saving higher education?

Spending money to find solutions to some of higher ed’s biggest problems

Higher Education

by Jon Marcus  and  Felicia Mello  – December 3, 2019

students with autism

As diagnoses rise, more colleges add services for students with autism

These few programs serve small numbers, however — and often at a high price

Higher Education

by  Charlotte West  – November 26, 2019

tuition free colleges

How one country with close parallels to the United States has made college free

The experience exposes the risks, rewards of increasingly popular free-tuition programs

Higher Education

by  Jon Marcus  – November 25, 2019

University of Chicago projected to be the first U.S. university to cost $100,000 a year

But fewer students are paying the full tuition. Is widespread discounting helping more people afford higher education, or just making it more complicated?

Divided We Learn

by Pete D'Amato  – October 30, 2019

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TOPS

How Louisiana’s richest students go to college on the backs of the poor

The state’s TOPS scholarship program and state budget formulas handicap less-advantaged students and colleges, and it’s a national trend

Higher Education

by Emmanuel Felton  – October 30, 2019

In one country, women now outnumber men in college by two to one

It’s only the most extreme example of a worldwide trend that includes the U.S.

Higher Education

by  Jon Marcus  – October 27, 2019

intellectual disabilities

Helping students with intellectual disabilities conquer college

More colleges are opening doors to students with intellectual disabilities and giving them life skills and a ticket to employment, but federal funding for some of these programs runs out next year

Higher Education

by  Kelly Field  – October 25, 2019

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