When it comes to the college major, should passion trump practicality?…
Aug 21

Under its current president, Arizona State University has increased its student population to 84,000, making it the largest university in America. In particular, the focus has been on boosting the number of low-income students. Hari Sreenivasan reports on how ASU…
Aug 21

By Emmanuel Felton, The Hechinger Report
The same big data techniques that are transforming other industries are seeping into the college and university admissions process to help predict whether students will succeed and graduate.
Aug 21

By Kyla Calvert Mason
Online course management tools, which track students’ work and grades for a class, can also change their behavior and improve performance.
Aug 20

By Paul Fain, Inside Higher Ed
Few colleges have signed onto the national college completion agenda with as much vigor as Sinclair Community College. And while national graduation rates have seen only a slow inching up, Sinclair has managed a big jump.
Aug 20

By Matt Krupnick, The Hechinger Report
California once showed the world how a state could guarantee a college education for nearly every resident, but then it failed to provide the long-term funding to do it.
Aug 19

By Kyla Calvert Mason
When classes start at Tennessee’s community colleges next week, the path to a degree or certificate will have a new starting point. More than 70 percent of the state’s students starting a two-year degree program have test scores showing they…
Aug 19

By Meredith Kolodner
Mercedez Vargas really wanted to get her high school diploma, but she struggled to get passing grades at a last-chance night school in the Bronx just as she had in the daytime at Marie Curie High School. A college degree?…
Aug 18

By Matt Krupnick, The Hechinger Report
Despite a dramatic tise in tuition in the last decade, California’s public universities have tried to ensure that its poorest residents can still afford to go to college. But California’s attempts to keep college affordable mask the reality that the…
Aug 17

By Kyla Calvert Mason
At the start of each semester, the financial aid money appeared in Sana Ahmed Malik’s account. The federal and state funds typically covered the cost of tuition, with a little left over for books and living expenses. But the fall…
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