Tag: higher ed attainment
Alcohol use more likely among Black youths at racially segregated schools
Guangyi Wang, University of California, San Francisco and Rita Hamad, University of California, San Francisco
The Research Brief is...
Only about 1 in 5 engineering degrees go to women
Danyelle Tauryce Ireland, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Despite various efforts to encourage...
Alcohol is becoming more common in sexual assault among college students
Mary P. Koss, University of Arizona
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3 ways to make ‘belonging’ more than a buzzword in higher...
Michelle Samura, Chapman University
“Belonging” is trending.
You can see it in evolving executive titles, such...
What is a 529 college savings plan? An economist explains
Robert H. Scott III, Monmouth University
The college savings plan known as a “529” is often touted as a...
Colleges routinely fail to ask about new hires’ history of sexual...
Susan Fortney, Texas A&M University and Theresa Morris, Texas A&M University
When three graduate students sued Harvard University in...
3 things that influence college graduates from rural areas to return...
Stephanie Sowl, Iowa State University
When high-achieving students from rural areas go off to college and graduate, they often...
Colleges accused of conspiring to make low-income students pay more
Robert Massa, University of Southern California
Sixteen universities – including six in the Ivy League – are accused in...
EXPLORING NATURE
The battle over a global energy transition is on between petro-states...
Jennifer Morgan, Tufts University
Two years ago, countries around the world set a goal of “transitioning away from fossil...
