Economic diversity matters for its own sake: The dearth of lower-income students at many elite colleges is a sign that educational opportunity has been constrained for Americans of all races. To put it another way, economic factors like household wealth are not valuable merely because they are a potential proxy for race; they are also […]
Presidents, provosts and non-profits worry how the Supreme Court's decision will affect diversity in STEM, deplete liberal arts education's value and hurt our society as a whole.
George Mason University has several options for food delivery, including self-driving robots. The robots arrived on George Mason University's campus in January 2019, and their presence continues to grow in the DMV. "Our developments and engineering headquarters are in Estonia, so, like we like to say, they're born in the snow. they get a lot […]
The 140-year-old Christian nonprofit school has been in financial shambles for years. In 2018, the college announced that its South Nyack campus would be shuttered and sold. Students were given the option to relocate to the lower Manhattan campus. The South Nyack campus is now owned by Yeshiva of Viznitz in Ramapo. In 2022, Nyack […]
As sparks begin to fly on the campaign trail, they're bound to drive a new round of heated exchanges on our campuses. The lessons Gen Z learns from it will have lasting effects on our society.
In a ruling divided along ideological lines, the high court's six-justice conservative majority found that the universities discriminated against white and Asian American applicants by using race-conscious policies that benefited applicants from underrepresented backgrounds. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion. The three liberal justices dissented. "Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it," Roberts […]
Most teens firmly believe in the importance of a four-year college degree, but they're becoming increasingly open-minded toward other postsecondary opportunities, a new survey suggests.
Lincoln University, Penn State University, Temple University, and the University of Pittsburgh have a special status that allows them to operate independently while receiving money from the state. State Rep. Ryan Warner (R., Fayette) said in an emailed statement that the lack of transparency is "beyond frustrating," given the universities got nearly $600 million from […]
State college presidents are pleading for a response to Minnesota's North Star Promise Program, which they're worried will cost them many of their students. North Dakota State University's president says more than half of their students come from Minnesota. At a time of declining enrollment, this gives those students a reason not to cross the […]
Clarence D. Ambrister and Tom Bogart managed their pandemic-era funding to set their institutions up for long-term success and have decided to retire on the upswing of a highly approved career.
