In a time of enrollment crunch, universities have a moral and existential obligation to serve the one student population that’s growing. We tracked how good a job they’re doing.
Pell Grants
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Workforce Pell’s Missing Rudder
Congress finally opened Pell Grants to short-term job training. Now states have to build the systems that can tell which programs actually work.
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Facing Political Attack and Falling Enrollment, Colleges Take the Fight to … Each Other
Competition is intensifying among institutions and recruiters for a dwindling pool of students.
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Five Big Changes Coming to Higher Education This Summer
If you have federal student loans—or plan to take them out—here’s what you need to know about the biggest changes to financial aid in decades.
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Amid Ideological Attacks on Higher Ed, Surprising Bipartisan Reforms Bloom
Long sought by both the right and left, the changes could protect consumers and lower costs.
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Student Loan Debt: What Went Wrong and How to Fix It
Student Loan Debt: From Educational Opportunity to Generational Grievance: The history of student loan debt shows how noble programs and soaring tuition have often left too many students underwater. Fortunately, there are ways to fix the problem.
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Open a New Front for Racial Justice
The decades-long effort to push elite colleges to be more diverse has failed. Here’s a better strategy: demand more support for the underfunded colleges that already graduate most Black and Hispanic students, and plenty of white students as well.
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Are Gaza Protests Happening Mostly at Elite Colleges?
Yup. The Washington Monthly runs the numbers and explains the results.
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Trust Fund U
In January 2021, when the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it would hear an appeal challenging Harvard’s use of racial preferences in college admissions, the institution’s president, Larry Bacow, sent a note to the university community positioning Harvard as a righteous champion of social justice. The Court, he wrote, was threatening Harvard’s ability “to create […]
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Unlike AmeriCorps, the California Service Plan Benefits Residents and the Undocumented
The state’s impressive CollegeCorps program aids postsecondary students in exchange for community service.
