Full Episode
Saturday, Apr 17
PBS NewsHour
  • Episodes
  • Podcasts
  • Subscribe
  • The Latest
  • Politics
    Politics
    • Brooks and Capehart
    • Politics Monday
    • Supreme Court
  • Arts
    Arts
    • CANVAS
    • Poetry
    • Now Read This
  • Nation
    Nation
    • Supreme Court
    • Race Matters
    • Essays
    • Brief But Spectacular
  • World
    World
    • Agents for Change
  • Economy
    Economy
    • Making Sen$e
    • Paul Solman
  • Science
    Science
    • The Leading Edge
    • ScienceScope
    • Basic Research
    • Innovation and Invention
  • Health
    Health
    • Long-Term Care
  • Education
    Education
    • Teachers' Lounge
    • Student Reporting Labs
  • For Teachers
  • About
    • Feedback
    • Funders
    • Support
    • Jobs

Educate your inbox

Subscribe to Here’s the Deal, our politics newsletter for analysis you won’t find anywhere else.

Form error message goes here.

Thank you. Please check your inbox to confirm.

Nation
PBS NewsHour

Get news alerts from PBS NewsHour

Turn on desktop notifications?

higher education

  • Full Episodes
  • Podcasts
  • Subscribe
  • Live

Education Apr 12

Even as colleges pledge to improve, share of engineering graduates who are Black declines

By Melba Newsome, The Hechinger Report

Education Apr 12

U.S. colleges divided over requiring student COVID-19 vaccinations

Universities including Rutgers, Brown, Cornell and Northeastern recently told students they must get vaccinated before returning to campus next fall.

By Associated Press

Education Feb 18

Where states are boosting or slashing higher ed funding amid the pandemic

Governors have proposed a patchwork of higher education funding increases and cuts in their budgets.

By Emma Whitford, Inside Higher Ed

Education Jan 26

Watch 6:23
How the pandemic is propelling demand for short-term college programs

It’s been a brutal academic year for higher education, with enrollment down in the fall more than 560,000 undergraduate students compared to 2019. But there has been at least one area of growth at many schools: short-term programs that help…

Education Jan 19

‘It’s just too much’: Why some students are abandoning community colleges

Fall enrollment at community colleges was down 10 percent from a year earlier, according to National Student Clearinghouse data.

By Lawrence Lanahan, The Hechinger Report

Jan 12

Watch 6:43
How the pandemic highlights racial disparities in higher education

By Hari Sreenivasan, Jason Kane

Typically during a recession, community college enrollment goes up as unemployed workers start looking for new skills. But that’s not happening this time around, signaling trouble for the economy and individual families going forward, particularly for lower-income students and students…

Continue watching

Dec 29

How Biden’s Education Department will tackle pandemic and Trump-era policies

By Candice Norwood

Addressing the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on education will be among some of the most urgent issues facing President-elect Joe Biden when he takes office.

Continue reading

Dec 28

Lori Loughlin released after 2 months in prison for college admissions scam

By Associated Press

“Full House” actor Lori Loughlin was released from prison Monday after spending two months behind bars for paying half a million dollars in bribes to get her two daughters into college.

Continue reading

Nov 30

‘I’ve never seen the campus’: What it’s like to attend Harvard from your childhood bedroom

By Charlotte West, The Hechinger Report

Zoom lectures haven’t been as bad as she thought they would be, though the upstairs neighbor’s vacuuming is distracting when she’s trying to pay attention.

Continue reading

Nov 22

Watch 6:10
A Maryland college honors the lives of enslaved people

By Ivette Feliciano, Connie Kargbo

St. Mary's College of Maryland unveiled a new memorial yesterday honoring the lives of enslaved people of southern Maryland. It tells the story of "resilience, persistence, and creative problem-solving that defined the lives” of the enslaved people that lived there…

Continue watching

Jump to the First Page Previous Page
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 37
Next Page Jump to the Last Page

Support Provided By: Learn more

Educate your inbox

Subscribe to Here’s the Deal, our politics newsletter for analysis you won’t find anywhere else.

Form error message goes here.

Thank you. Please check your inbox to confirm.

Full Episode
Saturday, Apr 17

Additional Support Provided By:

  • BNSF Railway
  • Consumer Cellular
  • Corporation for Public Broadcasting
  • Fidelity
  • Johnson & Johnson
  • Mutual of America: Your Retirement Company
  • Viewers Like You
  • Friends of the NewsHour
PBS NewsHour

© 1996 - 2021 NewsHour Productions LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Sections

  • The Latest
  • Politics
  • Arts
  • Nation
  • World
  • Economy
  • Science
  • Health
  • Education

About

  • About Us
  • TV Schedule
  • Press
  • Feedback
  • Funders
  • Support
  • Subscribe
  • NewsHour West
  • Jobs
  • Privacy

Stay Connected

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • RSS

Subscribe to ‘Here's the Deal,’ our politics newsletter

Form error message goes here.

Thank you. Please check your inbox to confirm.

Support our journalism

Learn more about Friends of the NewsHour.

Support for NewsHour Provided By

  • BNSF Railway
  • Consumer Cellular
  • Corporation for Public Broadcasting
  • Fidelity
  • Johnson & Johnson
  • Mutual of America: Your Retirement Company