Tag: US higher education
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...
Student loan debt is crushing Americans – 4 essential reads
Alvin Buyinza, The Conversation and Jamaal Abdul-Alim, The Conversation
US$1.7 trillion. That’s how much college students and graduates owed...
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?
Academic tenure: What it is and why it matters
George Justice, Arizona State University
How would you like a job that was guaranteed and allowed you to do...
Hip-hop professor looks to open doors with world’s first peer-reviewed rap...
A.D. Carson, University of Virginia
As a rap artist who is also a professor of hip-hop, I always make...
At colleges nationwide, esports teams dominated by men
Lindsey Darvin, State University of New York College at Cortland
The Conversation, CC BY-ND
Although...
For these students, using data in sports is about more than...
Felesia Stukes, Johnson C. Smith University
When professional sports teams use big data and analytics, their objective is to improve player performance and win more...
Federal financial aid for college will be easier to apply for...
Robert Kelchen, Seton Hall University
Editor’s note: The Free Application for Federal Student Aid – better known as FAFSA – is being simplified through the...
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...
