Category: Higher Education
The greening of career education: Students learn new skills they’ll need as climate change advances
GREENVILLE, S.C. — On one end of the classroom, high school juniors examined little green sprouts — future baby carrots, […]
February 15, 2026
After affirmative action: Four takeaways — and puzzles — from college admissions data
Most people believed that the Supreme Court’s 2023 decision to end affirmative action in higher education admissions would cause a […]
February 12, 2026
Getting in is getting easier
Think getting into college is all but impossible? Think again. Sure, the most selective institutions still take only a tiny […]
February 11, 2026
Changing landscape of international student mobility
by Hans de Wit, Philip G Altbach and Lizhou Wang In its many diverse forms – including degree study, credit […]
February 10, 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
OPINION: Community colleges are uniquely positioned to train the nation’s AI workforce
Every industrial revolution begins by creating a new middle class. The steam engine, for example, didn’t just replace blacksmiths; it […]
February 9, 2026
College admissions offices take on a new role: Coaxing accepted students to show up
MINNEAPOLIS — Kathy Cabrera Guaman not only survived the nail-biting process of applying to college; she got into three. But […]
February 3, 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