Delaware, Utah and Alabama lead the nation in earnings gains over high school graduates, revealing where undergraduate certificates and degrees generate the strongest financial returns.
States are making steady progress in connecting college to careers, but every state still has a large share of graduates who can't find work that uses their degree.
Colleges often enjoy strong support in their communities despite negative perceptions of the sector, says the chancellor of the University of Colorado Boulder. Here's what you can learn from that disconnect.
Whether a program runs 14 weeks or four years, students face many of the same pressures outside the classroom. Shortening the runway to a credential doesn't shorten the list of things standing between a student and the finish line.
Nearly all of the AAUP's first slate of federal endorsements won in the midterm elections, giving outspoken higher ed advocates a larger voice in Congress.
The university presidency is among the most complex and consequential leadership roles in American public life, and those who arrive at it well prepared do so not by accident but by intention.
Some leaders say financial aid for short-term training creates a "new day" for higher ed, but rigorous data reporting requirements have led to a slow rollout.
Real change in higher education is not a matter of cutting credit hours or tinkering with the academic calendar. Real change means fundamentally reimagining the structure of a bachelor's degree.
