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Choosing pass/fail grades may help college students now, but could cost them...
Loyola University New Orleans is letting students choose to “pass” or “fail,” but also offering the option of letter grades they may need for graduate and professional school admission. Photo:...
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Desperate for students, colleges resort to previously banned recruiting tactics
Free classes! Free parking! Prime dorm rooms! More cash! This story also appeared in The Washington Post The more they worry about whether students in this year of the coronavirus will show up in the...
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Will this semester forever alter college? No, but some virtual tools will...
A PhD candidate at Harvard University tilts his screen while teaching an online class from his dorm. Credit: (Photo by Blake Nissen for The Boston Globe via Getty Images) A professor at Loyola...
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Enrollment and financial crises threaten growing list of academic disciplines
MIAMI — A seemingly unending stream of people poured from the massive parking garages just outside the floor-to-ceiling windows of a classroom near the entrance to the Florida International University...
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While focus is on fall, students’ choices about college will have a far...
When she thinks about a student going through college, Kristen Renn imagines a seedling growing into a tree: There are a lot of things that could go wrong along the way. This story also appeared in...
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Urgency of getting people back to work gives new momentum to “microcredentials”
HENDERSON, Nev. — The menu at the diner where Amy Nelson likes to take a break from work is notable for its side dishes, including caramelized bananas, cinnamon apples and mushrooms and onions. This...
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With a degree no longer enough, job candidates are told to prove their skills...
Among the many frustrations ahead for millions of Americans thrown out of work by the pandemic is one that may surprise them: To get a new job, it’s increasingly likely they will have to take a test....
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Amid pandemic, graduate student workers are winning long-sought contracts
Stately and historic Power Street in Providence, Rhode Island, feels sedate at the busiest of times, but on a Friday in the midst of the pandemic it was as silent as a stopped clock. This story also...
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How higher education’s own choices left it vulnerable to the pandemic crisis
When Missouri Western State University declared a financial emergency in the spring, it was widely assumed to have been the fault of the coronavirus pandemic. This story also appeared in NBC News But...
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As the world goes virtual, big education technology players tighten their grip
Even as the country skidded to a dystopian halt in the first days of the pandemic, Sam Chaudhary and his colleagues found themselves with more work than they had ever seen. This story also appeared in...
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Strapped for students, colleges finally begin to clear transfer logjam
Lebanon Valley College recruited transfer students this year by promising that their general education courses would count toward a degree — something that doesn’t usually happen. “You’re welcome...
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Progress in getting underrepresented people into college and skilled jobs may...
Largely low-income, Hispanic and with parents whose own educations didn’t get past high school, the young people in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas started over the last decade doing something few of...
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Pandemic speeds up influx of remote workers to small cities
BURLINGTON, Vt. — Rising from the eastern shore of Lake Champlain, just south of the Canadian border, this distant city looks like a quaint throwback, with Victorian-era architecture, church steeples...
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More people with bachelor’s degrees go back to school to learn skilled trades
SCARBOROUGH, Maine — Putting on hazmat gear for the first time turns out to be a long-drawn-out process, so the trainees who are practicing this new skill make the time go faster with a little...
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The ‘Fauci effect’: Inspired by front-line health care workers, record...
SOMERVILLE, Mass. — When Covid-19 restrictions reduced his work schedule, Sam Smith turned to another time-consuming job: applying to medical schools. This story also appeared in GBH News and National...
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Number of rural students planning on going to college plummets
BUCKSPORT, Maine — Its roof frosted with a covering of the previous night’s snow, a yellow school bus chugs up to the front door of Bucksport High School, where Principal Josh Tripp greets the handful...
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Shopping for a major? Detailed salary info shows which majors pay off
When the University of Texas system teamed up with the Census Bureau to show how much money graduates earn, broken down by major and campus, the idea was to help future students make good choices....
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While many colleges are making big cuts, a few opt for permanent transformation
UNITY, Maine — Like many campuses around the country, Unity College is silent, and not only because it’s buried under a thick covering of snow. This story also appeared in PBS Newshour The tiny...
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More colleges and universities outsource services to for-profit companies
MEDFORD, Mass. — The Tufts University campus was a quiet place in the fall, where students were scolded to stay in their dorms, checked frequently for Covid-19 and — if they tested positive —...
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The pandemic is speeding up the mass disappearance of men from college
Listen: Disappearance Of Men From College Campuses by Kirk Carapezza Debrin Adon, a senior at the University Park Campus School in Worcester, Massachusetts. His male classmates “don’t think they’re...
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