higher ed

New York becomes first state to offer free four-year college tuition

By Dayana Morales Gomez

Rhode Island is now considering a similar measure, which would make two years of college free for in-state students.

Column: By saddling students with debt, we’re depriving them of self-reliance

By Steve Gardiner

The burden of college debt will hang on our current students for years, but depriving them of the sense of pride and dignity they could develop by advancing their own lives could last a lifetime.

Would this new idea help students manage the college affordability crisis?

By Mikhail Zinshteyn, The Hechinger Report

A tuition cooperative is a new idea aimed at tempting colleges to give discounts: Students interested in the same field of study or training could band together, pool resources and commit to a school as a group, lowering costs.

Trump suggests Berkeley could lose federal funds over violent protests at university

By Scott Jaschik and Doug Lederman, Inside Higher Ed

President Trump suggests university could lose federal funds after California campus is latest to be inflamed by protests -- reportedly fueled by visiting mob from off the campus -- over appearances by the Breitbart writer and provocateur.

How can wealthy private colleges better serve low-income students?

By Mikhail Zinshteyn, The Hechinger Report

Nearly half of the nation’s wealthy private colleges and universities enroll so few Pell Grant recipients that they would rank in the bottom 5 percent of colleges enrolling such students.

Bridging the town and gown divide

By Jon Marcus, The Hechinger Report

In a time of falling trust, colleges are reaching out to bridge the class and cultural divides that often exist between them and the surrounding neighborhood.

Students have struggled with fake news for longer than you think

By Benjamin Herold, Education Week

For schools, media literacy is an “enduring issue” that predates social media and the internet, said Lawrence Paska of the National Council for the Social Studies.

As economy rebounds, state funding for higher education isn’t bouncing back

By Luba Ostashevsky, The Hechinger Report

Unlike after previous recessions, public higher-education spending is stubbornly down. And in some states, a bigger and bigger share of what they do spend on public universities and colleges is going to such things as employee pensions, not instruction.