Tag: Higher education
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...
How much is the media buzz from a March Madness Cinderella...
Nancy Haskell, University of Dayton
Few people outside Jersey City had heard of the No. 15 seed Saint Peter’s...
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...
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...
The US doesn’t have enough faculty to train the next generation...
Rayna M. Letourneau, University of South Florida
Despite a national nursing shortage in the United States, over 80,000 qualified...
How better funding can increase the number and diversity of doctoral...
Shaun M. Dougherty, Vanderbilt University and Walter G. Ecton, University of Pennsylvania
The Research Brief is a short take...
Female leaders in higher education have created more inclusive and open...
Thalia Plata, The Conversation
How have female leaders in higher education shaped the state of the field today, and...
College can still be rigorous without a lot of homework
KC Culver, University of Southern California
How hard should it be to earn a college degree?