The 2021 U.S. News and World Report annual rankings adjust for key factors affecting students during COVID-19, but many of the elite universities still stay near the top
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 non-degree granting, for-profit sector of higher education has been experiencing success with coding and other technology boot camps since 2012. Encouraged by that success, both public and private degree-granting institutions have jumped on the bandwagon in recent years.
The so-called SAT adversity score should advance the conversation about eliminating the income and racial inequalities that persist around standardized testing and college admissions. That, says one higher ed access expert, may be the biggest benefit provided by The College Board's attempt to calculate the impact of factors such as neighborhood crime, high school quality, […]
Beyond food pantries, higher education needs more substantial changes in the structure of food service to accommodate new student populations—many more low-income students, part-time “post-traditional” students attending in new patterns, and traditional students facing increasing financial challenges with rising costs of attendance.
A newly formed advocacy organization hopes to smooth the process for busy adults looking to attend college. The Coalition for Adult Learners will campaign for competency-based learning, simplified and more flexible financial aid, and other federal policies and institutional practices. “Most colleges are still organized around their historic mission of serving traditional learners,” said Bob […]
The Payden Academic Center—the first new academic building added to Trinity’s historic Washington, D.C. campus in more than half a century, provides much needed instructional space for the school’s growing nursing and health programs as well as a step into modern architecture. The four-story, LEED-certified structure accommodates classes from every discipline offered on campus so that […]
