Tag: Higher education
How Trump’s harsh education cuts undermine his economic growth goals
Shaun M. Dougherty, University of Connecticut
The Trump administration has some ambitious goals that include trillions in tax cuts, a significant military buildup and a...
The myth of the college dropout
Jonathan Wai, Duke University and Heiner Rindermann, Chemnitz University of Technology
When Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was asked to give this year’s commencement...
Universities around the world should share notes as they face the...
Jimmy Volmink, Stellenbosch University
In 2016 I had the privilege of visiting four leading universities abroad. At KU Leuven in Belgium, Oxford in the UK...
Balancing cybersecurity and academic freedom is a challenge on campus
Jungwoo Ryoo, Pennsylvania State University
Cybersecurity concerns crop up everywhere you turn lately – around the election, email services, retailers. And academic institutions haven’t been...
Here’s how undocumented students are able to enroll at American universities
Tanya Golash-Boza, University of California, Merced and Benigno Merlin, University of California, Merced
President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions of undocumented people, beginning...
Why it’s so hard for students to have their debts forgiven
Neal H. Hutchens, University of Mississippi and Richard Fossey, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Outstanding student loan debt in the United States reached a record...
EXPLORING NATURE
Children can be systematic problem-solvers at younger ages than psychologists had...
Celeste Kidd, University of California, Berkeley
I’m in a coffee shop when a young child dumps out his mother’s...
