Cedar Crest College President Elizabeth Meade shares strategies for addressing students' financial burdens—through increased affordability and travel abroad and work-study opportunities for all.
The concept of college as the great equalizer suffers when it comes to lucrative graduate degrees, which are more often earned by students from high-income backgrounds, University of Kentucky researchers say.
The crisis in legal education is well-documented: Many law students graduate with six-figure debt and have difficulty finding jobs that enable them to service that debt. The access to justice crisis is also well-known: tens of millions of Americans are priced out of the market for legal services. Clients in remote areas have trouble finding […]
First-generation college student and recent UC Berkeley grad Ulises Serrano, an aspiring higher ed administrator, will enter graduate school this fall without any student loan debt. That’s thanks in part to the income-share agreement (ISA) used to finance the first two years of his post-secondary education at Allan Hancock College in California. For Serrano and […]
There were more than 100,000 applicants to American Bar Association-accredited law schools in the fall of 2004. In the three years prior, the number of applicants rose almost 30 percent. At the time, most law schools could expect yearly increases in tuition and applications. For many universities, the law school was seen as a cash […]
The wave of first-generation and low-income students now seeking higher ed access is placing unprecedented financial strain on the full spectrum of liberal arts institutions, says James F. Jones, the interim president of Sweet Briar College. But while other higher ed leaders acknowledge this and other challenges, many say the shutting down this year of […]
