Jan 31 Why this community college is getting rid of remedial classes By Sarah Butrymowicz, The Hechinger Report Guttman Community College has an unusual approach to solving a ubiquitous problem. Continue reading
Jan 30 Most colleges enroll students who aren’t prepared for higher education By Sarah Butrymowicz, The Hechinger Report The vast majority of public two- and four-year colleges report enrolling students – more than half a million of them–who are not ready for college-level work, a Hechinger Report investigation of 44 states has found. Continue reading
Jan 29 Trump immigration order leaves U.S. colleges scrambling for answers By Corinne Segal President Donald Trump's executive order on immigration has left colleges and universities racing to figure out how their students and employees will be affected. Continue reading
Jan 24 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. Continue reading
Jan 16 Watch 7:29 Why so many students from for-profit schools are left in debt limbo By PBS News Hour Students who attend for-profit college and training programs are more likely to borrow, borrow more and struggle to repay their loans. Not only that, but the overall graduation rate at for-profit institutions is just 27 percent. Meanwhile, a number of… Continue watching
Jan 04 Watch 11:07 What will be Obama’s lasting education legacy? By PBS News Hour President Obama and his former education secretary Arne Duncan exercised more power and influence over education policy than many predecessors. The administration placed a focus on testing, trying it to federal funding. In higher education, he emphasized the importance of… Continue watching
Jan 03 Nationwide, state budget cuts disproportionately hit low-income, minority college students By Jon Marcus, The Hechinger Report States are disproportionately subsidizing schools whose students are wealthier, whiter… Continue reading
Dec 21 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. Continue reading
Dec 16 Watch 2:57 Why college should be a journey of listening By PBS News Hour Recently, free speech and censorship on college campuses have been hotly debated. Nathan Heller of The New Yorker believes that the solution to this dilemma lies not in the way we speak, but in the way we listen. When people… Continue watching
Dec 05 Risking political pushback, private colleges enroll undocumented students By Timothy Pratt, The Hechinger Report Universities and colleges, some of which announced new policies on undocumented students only in the last few months, are now noisy with marches, protests and petitions demanding that these policies survive the Trump administration and that campuses be turned into… Continue reading