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Report Outlines Policies and Reforms that Address Student Needs

by Lois Elfman | December 16, 2019 A recently issued policy brief from Ithaka S+R offers insights and policy suggestions to increa Read more

West Virginia County to Offer Simultaneous High School and Associate Degree Program

by Sarah Wood | November 11, 2019
High school students in a West Virginia county can now choose to start their college education [...] Read more

Small Institutions Lead the Way in STEM Degree Attainment for Underrepresented Students

by Sarah Wood | October 14, 2019
Small and mid-sized institutions play a significant role in strengthening the science, technolo [...] Read more

Upswing Raises $2M to Reach 2020 Degree Attainment Goal

by Tiffany Pennamon | May 21, 2019
Education technology startup Upswing announced that it has raised $2 million from education par [...] Read more

Newly Appointed Lindenwood University Interim President Doesn’t Have a College Degree

by Monica Levitan | February 14, 2019
In a recent interview with Lindenwood University’s student newspaper, Lindenlink, newly appoi [...] Read more

Modeling Behavior And Fostering a Sense of Well-Being For First-Generation College Students

by Curtis L. Todd |
First-generation college students are frequently found in the margins of important collegiate e [...] Read more

HEA Reauthorization Can Reduce the Equity Gaps that Persist for Students of Color

by Alyse Gray Parker & India Heckstall | December 3, 2018
A new Congress presents a new opportunity to restart the process of reauthorizing the Higher Ed [...] Read more

Study on SAILS Program Recommends Better Remediation, Support for Students

by Tiffany Pennamon | October 29, 2018
A new Harvard University Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) study on Tennessee’s Sea [...] Read more

Study: Wide Racial Gaps Persist in College Degree Attainment

by Dominique Burns and LaMont Jones | June 18, 2018
Compared to White adults in the United States, Black adults are two-thirds as likely to hold a [...] Read more

Expert: Lower-income Dual Enrollment Students Need Additional Support

by Catherine Morris | September 26, 2017
A new report from the Community College Research Center (CCRC) sheds some light on postsecondar [...] Read more

Analysis: States’ Interest in Outcomes-based Higher Ed Funding Grows

by Jamaal Abdul-Alim |
Twice as many states – four – as the prior year adopted outcomes-based funding in higher ed [...] Read more

After Decades of Pushing Bachelor’s Degrees, U.S. Needs More Tradespeople

by Matt Krupnick, The Hechinger Report | September 6, 2017
FONTANA, Calif. — At a steel factory dwarfed by the adjacent Auto Club Speedway, Fernando Esp [...] Read more

Study: Increased Credit Hours’ Impact on Graduation Rates ‘Very Limited’

by Jamaal Abdul-Alim | July 19, 2017
A recent study finds that excess credit hour policies were having a “very limited” impact o [...] Read more

U.S. Policy Makers Urged to Act on Degree Attainment Lag

by Catherine Morris | October 23, 2016
Although the U.S. was the first nation to offer universal high school to all students, American [...] Read more

Higher Ed Federal-State Partnerships Urged to Aim Higher

by Jamaal Abdul-Alim | September 28, 2016
The Education Trust amplified the longstanding calls among some in higher education for a great [...] Read more

Three More Big Diversity-related Questions resulting from COVID-19

Part II: Three More Big Diversity-related Questions resulting from COVID-19