Nov 13 Watch 7:57 How unintentional but insidious bias can be the most harmful By PBS News Hour National attention has been focused on overt racial tensions on college campuses across the country. But what about smaller, subtle, more persistent forms of racism? Special correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault speaks to Derald Wing Sue of Teachers College at Columbia University… Continue watching
Nov 12 Watch 10:46 At Mizzou, Yale and beyond, campus protests stir fresh questions about free speech By PBS News Hour At the University of Missouri, protests and a president's resignation have put a spotlight on heated debate taking place on campuses across the country over hateful speech and racial insensitivities. Greg Lukianoff of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education… Continue watching
Nov 11 When a university president crashes the party, do students make better decisions? By Kellie Woodhouse, Inside Higher Ed If a university president attends parties, do students change their behavior?… Continue reading
Nov 10 It’s true, Mizzou’s black faculty numbers are low – really low By Vanessa Dennis, Laura Santhanam How far is the University of Missouri from meeting the student protesters' demands of 10-percent black faculty? We looked at the black faculty data in all Southeastern Conference schools. Continue reading
Nov 09 Watch 10:29 How Ferguson influenced the student uprising at Mizzou By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Oct 08 Albuquerque hosts massive effort to send more to college By Jon Marcus, The Hechinger Report This story was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Read more about higher education. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — In a nondescript one-story industrial building surrounded by a neighborhood… Continue reading
Sep 28 80 colleges plan admissions revamp to reach more disadvantaged students By Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed Eighty leading colleges and universities are announcing today a plan to reverse a decades-long process by which colleges -- largely through the Common Application -- have made their applications increasingly similar. Continue reading
Sep 14 While a national college rating system stalls, states provide detailed data of their own By Jon Marcus, The Hechinger Report David Gardner travels around Texas handing out thumb drives listing some of the most sensitive possible statistics about the performance of the state’s universities: how much they really cost, how many of their students actually get degrees, how much… Continue reading
Sep 07 Will picking the right college major land you a better job? By Vikram Mansharamani When it comes to the college major, should passion trump practicality?… Continue reading
Aug 21 Watch 6:22 Opening the doors to more low-income students reshapes a university By PBS News Hour 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… Continue watching