This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Instead of moving institutions forward, both diversity/inclusion initiatives alongside pleas to have more neutral stances inside and outside the classroom focus more on making majority students comfortable at the expense…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A report from the Better Government Association, a nonpartisan Illinois-based watchdog group, claims that City Colleges of Chicago’s Kennedy-King College combined graduation rates with the Chicago-based French Pastry School. The…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Education Department officials today announced a plan to grant partial debt relief to defrauded student borrowers based on the earnings of graduates who attended a particular program of study. It’s…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. University enrollment continued to decline in the fall for the sixth straight year, adding more bad news to the woes of financially stretched colleges and universities, new figures show. The…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Plenty of American students are attending college. But how many are graduating? Fortunately, the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) released its annual report on college completion rates last week to answer…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Approximately 4.6 million Americans have defaulted on federal student loans, according to The Wall Street Journal. This figure includes an increase of 274,000 people over the last three months. At the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Mississippi’s for-profit colleges are largely drawing low-income students, students of color and women, putting these residents at risk of incurring more debt compared to their peers at nonprofit schools. The…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The U.S. Department of Education recently released its priorities for discretionary grant programs and, in an encouraging move, included an expansive definition of educational choice that includes early college high…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The PROSPER Act, the House Republicans’ proposal for reauthorizing the Higher Education Act (HEA), changes to the federal student loan program to simplify repayment options but will result in longer…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In many ways, Lyle Clinton May is an ordinary Ohio University student. He has a major. He has an adviser with whom he communicates regularly. He’s pursuing a bachelor’s degree. He’s…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When Matthew Wolfsen, a student activist at Georgia Tech, asked the university for all its records on him, he got back two binders of documents. Some of it was expected…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The first thing an economist looks for in this kind of situation is earnings differences. I’ll concentrate on black and Hispanic faculty while leaving gender for another day. The simple…