Education Oct 12 Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan faces challenge in federal court By Laura Barrón-López
Education Oct 04 Watch 7:38 University makes major push for diversity without considering race, gender in admissions Past Supreme Court rulings have allowed colleges to consider race in their admissions processes and about 40 percent do. But the justices will soon revisit the issue and could overturn years of precedent. John Yang visited a university making a… By John Yang, Cat Wise
Education Sep 27 Watch 8:38 Universities, community colleges partner to help transfer students earn degrees As four-year colleges and universities look for ways to boost enrollment and reach underrepresented students, a growing number are focused on community college transfer students. At some of the nation’s most selective colleges, transfer acceptance rates are now higher than… By Hari Sreenivasan, Cat Wise
Education Sep 20 Watch 8:37 Prisoners will soon be eligible for federal grants, opening new educational opportunities Colleges are gearing up for a spike of interest in prison education programs. That's because incarcerated people will soon be eligible for Pell Grants. It will be the first time in 28 years prisoners can access that federal funding for… By Stephanie Sy, Ryan Connelly Holmes, Sarah Clune Hartman
Education Sep 20 Why the Pell Grant wouldn’t exist without the work of one woman When women and Black Americans rarely influenced federal policy, Lois Dickson Rice lobbied successfully for the creation of the Pell Grant. By Nadra Nittle, The 19th
Sep 13 Watch 9:13 Applications to HBCUs rise dramatically as nationwide college enrollment falls By Hari Sreenivasan, Sarah Clune Hartman The number of undergraduate students has dropped by almost 10% during the pandemic. But it's been a different story for some time at many historically Black colleges and universities. Applications are up nearly 30% at many of these schools and… Continue watching
Aug 31 What students returning to campus are craving By Blake Lee-Whiting, Thomas Bergeron, The Conversation Students in an international survey said they really missed chances to be together in person for campus-related activities, not only due to academic concerns. Continue reading
May 10 Watch 7:51 Colorado college reckons with a troubling legacy of erasing Indigenous culture By Hari Sreenivasan, Cat Wise Over the course of more than 100 years beginning in the 1800s, hundreds of thousands of Native American children in the U.S. were removed from their families, placed in federal boarding schools and forced to abandon their Native languages and… Continue watching
May 04 Watch 7:47 San Antonio, Texas tackles education inequality with free or reduced college tuition By Hari Sreenivasan, Cat Wise President Biden proposed providing two years of tuition-free community college after he took office, but the idea was dropped after congressional opposition. Yet efforts persist at the local and state level to boost college attendance. More than 400 such programs… Continue watching
Apr 27 Why this professor no longer grades her students’ work – and wishes she had stopped sooner By Elisabeth Gruner, The Conversation Evaluating student work and offering feedback doesn’t mean there has to be a grade. Continue reading