Every year, I take the 68 teams in the NCAA Division I men’s basketball tournament and fill out a bracket based on colleges with the lowest net price of attendance (defined as the total cost of attendance less all grant aid received). My 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014 and 2013 brackets are preserved for posterity—and often […]
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Posted inEducation, Higher Education
New Higher Education Policy Voice: Kelly Rosinger
Kelly Rosinger (@kelly_rosinger) is a first-year assistant professor in the Department of Education Policy Studies at Penn State University. Before that, she was an Institute of Education Sciences postdoc at the University of Virginia, where she worked with Ben Castleman’s Nudge4 team applying behavioral interventions to improve the college choice process. An expert in experimental […]
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Risky Business: Banking On International Students
More and more American colleges and universities depend on foreign students to make sure their costs are low. But those students are increasingly going to other countries to study and the current political attitude towards immigrants is partly to blame.
Posted inEducation, Featured
Colleges That Encourage Students to Vote Help the Country—and Now Their Rankings
The Washington Monthly’s 2018 college rankings will measure those efforts.
Posted inEducation, Higher Education
Christian Conservatives are Trying to Turn Their Bigoted Policies into Higher Education Law
Discrimination cannot be disguised as religious freedom
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How One College System Pushes Many Graduates into the Middle Class and Beyond
A small, somewhat pricey 50-year-old program in New York City proves to be an engine of social mobility, economists find
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College of the Holy Cross Will Keep The Crusader As Mascot
UPDATE: After months of debate, the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester announced it is keeping its mascot, the Crusader. The small Catholic college has reaffirmed that students, athletes and alumni will continue to be known as Crusaders who fight for social justice. In the fall, Holy Cross President Rev. Philip Boroughs asked students […]
Posted inJanuary/February/March 2018, Magazine
How Rich Universities Waste Their Endowments
A gusher of oil money has made the University of Texas one of the richest institutions in the country—but hardly any of it goes to financial aid.
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The 2017 “Not Top Ten” List in Higher Education
Yesterday, I unveiled my fifth annual list of the top ten events in American higher education in 2017. Now it’s time for the annual list of the “not top ten” events—which are a mix of puzzling decisions and epic fails that leave most of us wondering what people were thinking. Enjoy the list—and send along […]
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The 2017 Higher Education Top Ten List
It’s safe to say that 2017 has been one of the most fascinating years in the realm of higher education policy in a long while. With the Trump administration seeking to reverse many Obama-era policies and both states and the private sector taking bold actions, there has been no shortage of high-impact events over the […]
