Senator Frank Lautenberg was a practical progressive who based action on facts, figures, and hard-won experience. He knew first-hand, for example, the...

If America is going to provide real meritocratic opportunity for intelligent and hard-working young people, it cannot merely focus on Ivy League universities or similar private institutions of higher education.

Can students really be taught critical thinking, civics, and citizenship skills in a standardized format that values conformity? Will relying on MOOCs and automation in the long-term turn professors into "delivery managers" and students into automatons and passive consumers rather than citizens?

This story was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news outlet based at Teachers College, Columbia University. The amount b...

States are stretched thin. Many states are no longer the major funders for their state universities. Yet state mandates are becoming more aggressive, and voices calling for institutions to change are becoming more discordant and contradictory

Ignorance requires no evidence and no research. It can be endlessly repeated and rapidly spread. It inflames passions. Its pervasiveness wears down those who attempt to combat it. Which brings me to North Carolina Governor Patrick McCrory.

California's public higher education system is dying a slow death. The promise of a cheap, quality education is slipping away. And don't think the slow rot of public education is unique to California: that state's woes are the nation's.

They're the pride and backbone of American higher education, doing essential research and educating en masse the next generations of scientists and en...

More students are going to college than ever before, but states have continued to cut back on funding for public colleges, and that's leading to some ...

The bottom line is that we all need to be held accountable, but those of us who work in public higher education can't do it alone. America's success is fundamentally connected to the state of our education system.

When states cut funding to public higher education, universities usually raise tuition. That's nothing new. What is new is the trend of administrators...

Universities are not businesses, but they must be run more efficiently. They are not vocational schools, but they must send their students into the world prepared to be both strong citizens and capable workers. And they must continue to be centers of discovery and scholarship.

Many celebrities have attended public colleges, trudging along the campus paths and sitting in the same dinning halls as students do today. Though...

Temple University announced on Thursday they will not increase tuition on undergraduate students next year. "Rising student debt is one of the majo...

Since the 1970s the share of the costs of a public college education funded by the taxpayer has dropped precipitously. Now it is typical for state appropriations to cover only 20 percent or less of the actual cost of education in a public university.

Public universities may be suffering disinvestment from state governments, but their presidents are still taking home hefty salaries. According to ...

Going to medical school isn't cheap. The average tuition can run from $28,812 to $45,870, depending on whether you attend a public or private schoo...

Everyone seems to be talking about the exorbitant cost of higher education lately. Over the past few years, states have made higher education a tar...

Rising costs and student debt threaten the foundation of public universities. We all need to work together to ensure that a four-year college degree remains within the grasp of all qualified students.