Category: Higher Education Completion
OPINION: Want to get young people excited about learning? Give them hands-on programs, mentors and skills that lead to good careers
Sitting in a classroom and being lectured day after day is no way to excite young people about learning. Students […]
February 19, 2026
Easy A’s, lower pay: Grade inflation’s hidden damage
For more than three decades, grades in American schools and colleges have been going up, up, up. A’s are more […]
February 9, 2026
Funding cuts, shifts in aid could make college harder to afford for low-income families
It was in the quiet of the summer when Jeff Kahlden heard that a promising young student he advised in […]
February 9, 2026
Hispanic-serving colleges scramble to fill gaps left by federal grant cuts
CHICO, Calif. — As an undergraduate studying psychology at California State University, Chico, Gabriel Muñoz thought that his degree might […]
February 3, 2026
When the Spanish flu upended universities, students paid the price
In the fall of 1918, Edward Kidder Graham, the president of the University of North Carolina, tried to reassure anxious […]
February 2, 2026
5 big questions to help you understand the current state of student loans
Washington is sending confusing and even contradictory signals to people with student loans. New repayment plans, reversals on wage garnishment […]
January 28, 2026
STUDENT VOICES: Two recent college graduates have a message to their 17-year-old selves: Don’t go it alone
Like millions of students across the country, we recently graduated from college. We know how unlikely this moment once seemed. […]
January 27, 2026
Their value attacked and funding cut, universities and colleges start fighting back
A narrator speaks over images of busy cityscapes, children playing in a field and ominous scenes of natural disasters and […]
January 27, 2026