There certainly is a serious problem today facing higher education that is not being sufficiently addressed, and that concerns what "higher" education is all about.
Brittany Woods | Posted 05.21.2012
Students knew my name because it was whispered beneath their breath in class. And I became the center of attention because I was considered "the girl who cried rape."
Jeff Selingo | Posted 05.09.2012
College campuses are full of long-held assumptions about how academe works. A perilous one for the future of American higher education is that high-school students pick a college, enroll, and -- two or four years later -- graduate from the same institution.
Tim King | Posted 04.08.2012
With so much talk right now on the economy and balancing budgets at any cost, it was refreshing to hear President Obama use part of his State of the Union speech to address the skyrocketing cost of college.
nytimes.com | TAMAR LEWIN | Posted 11.27.2011
A report to be released on Tuesday by a group seeking to raise college graduation rates shows that despite decades of steadily climbing enrollment rat...
José Cruz | Posted 11.21.2011
This "celebritization" of higher education may have earned U.S. News a handsome profit over the years, but it says little about how well these institutions actually perform their primary charge: educating students.
AP | STACY A. ANDERSON | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden says the way to improve college graduation rates is to make high schools more rigorous academically and co...
The Chronicle of Higher Education | Sara Hebel | Posted 05.25.2011
The share of Americans with a college education has been increasing steadily for generations, but it doesn't look like the rising tide that lifts all ...
Post Tech | Posted 05.25.2011
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced on Monday a $20 million project to fund Internet and other high-tech ventures aimed at boosting the nati...
Huffington Post | Leah Finnegan | Posted 05.25.2011
Two decades ago, about 40 percent of U.S. adults aged 18 to 30 graduated from college. Today, the rate remains the same here while increasing in count...
Joel Shatzky | Posted 05.23.2012