Tag: higher ed attainment
Racial stereotypes drive students of color away from STEM, but many...
Ebony O. McGee, Vanderbilt University
Dominique, a Black electrical engineering doctoral student, found herself in an awkward situation in the lounge of a hotel where...
Congress lifts long-standing ban on Pell grants to people in prison
Andrea Cantora, University of Baltimore
When Congress decided in 1994 to ban federal student aid for people behind bars, it was part of a wider...
How remote learning is making educational inequities worse
Hernán Galperin, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and Stephen Aguilar, University of Southern California
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting...
Computer science jobs pay well and are growing fast. Why are...
Tamara Pearson, Spelman College
When it comes to the digital divide, often the focus is on how lack of internet service and basic technology will...
The morality of canceling student debt
Kate Padgett Walsh, Iowa State University
President-elect Joe Biden promised to forgive at least some student debt during his campaign, and he now supports immediately...
Opportunities to practice real-life philanthropy bring academic benefits
Kajsa Larson, Northern Kentucky University and Mark A. Neikirk, Northern Kentucky University
A crisis shelter for battered women. A nonprofit that provides wigs and makeup...
This type of sexual harassment on campus often goes overlooked
Sarah Ives, City College of San Francisco and Ann E. Bartos
When the #MeToo movement gained momentum in 2017, it exposed widespread sexual harassment in...
Doing this one thing helps community college students transfer to a...
Xueli Wang, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Elizabeth has always wanted to be a doctor. While a high school senior, she was hoping to achieve her dream...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
