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As admissions season descends, wealthier applicants once again have the...
Aya Hamza’s academic and extracurricular record at Coral Gables Senior High School near Miami should have made her path to college relatively effortless. This story also appeared in The Washington...
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How a decline in community college students is a big problem for the economy
Even as the twin blows of a pandemic and a recession have slowed down the construction industry, B & I Contractors in Fort Myers, Florida, isn’t short of work. This story also appeared in The...
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How one small college exemplifies higher education’s problems and potential...
The Emmanuel College story BOSTON — Maria Amodeo cringed when she ran into her biology professor on the quad at Emmanuel College, where patches of snow covered the hard ground on a bright but cold...
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Beer making for credit: Liberal arts colleges add career tech
STRATFORD, Conn. — A Yale-educated evolutionary biologist and a member of the faculty at Catholic, liberal arts-focused Sacred Heart University, Geffrey Stopper also oversees one of its newest...
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Colleges are withholding transcripts and degrees from millions over unpaid bills
BOSTON — Gabriel Toro choked up behind his mask as he described the lengths it took him to complete his bachelor’s degree at the University of Massachusetts Boston. This story also appeared in GBH...
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Some universities’ response to budget woes: Making faculty teach more courses
An English professor at Southern Connecticut State University, Cynthia Stretch is used to meeting after hours with her students, many of whom work full time while in college. This story also appeared...
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Some colleges stop holding transcripts hostage over unpaid bills
James Smith missed his final housing payment to the University of Massachusetts Amherst when he spent a year there in an exchange program on his way to a degree at the University of Minnesota. This...
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Colleges face reckoning as plummeting birthrate worsens enrollment declines
WORCESTER, Mass. — Only bird songs penetrate the silence on the neatly tended but deserted grounds of Becker College. This story also appeared in The Washington Post A sign on the registrar’s office...
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Colleges fight attempts to stop them from withholding transcripts over unpaid...
BOSTON — Alex Harris loves his job working with students on the autism spectrum — “my superheroes,” he calls them with a broad smile and a deep laugh — in the Boston Public Schools. This story also...
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Colorado leads the way in closing the door to legacy admission
GOLDEN, Colo. — Half a dozen nervous-looking high school students and their parents browse a table of pamphlets and freebies, then settle into molded plastic chairs to hear a hyper-enthusiastic...
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Some colleges ease up on pushing undergrads into picking majors right away
BOULDER, Colo. — Ingrid Dominguez can’t remember why, when she was applying to college, she decided she would major in business. This story also appeared in The Washington Post “I don’t really know,...
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Racial gaps in college degrees are widening, just when states need them to...
Listen: Racial gaps in college degrees are widening, just when states need them to narrow, by Stephanie Daniel DENVER — Brandon Navejas earned a nearly perfect grade-point average at his inner-city...
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College degree doesn’t pay off as well for first-generation grads
Christelle Louis’s single mother, a Haitian immigrant and certified nursing assistant at a nursing home, never went to college. But she always pushed her daughter to go and get the education she...
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From Google ads to NFL sponsorships: Colleges throw billions at marketing...
WASHINGTON — It was the personalized emails that got Jadyn Turner to consider Catholic University when she was choosing a college. This story also appeared in The Washington Post She still has them...
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Most college students don’t graduate in four years, so college and the...
Millions of college freshmen are settling into college this fall, and 9 out of 10 of those pursuing bachelor’s degrees are confident they’ll finish in four years or less. This story also appeared in...
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Will that college degree pay off? Now you can finally see the numbers
A bachelor’s degree in anthropology from Ithaca College costs $132,656, on average, and two years later, graduates are earning $19,227. That’s less than people in New York State earn with only a high...
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A surprise for America’s many career switchers: They need to go back to school
LISTEN: Career-switchers find they need more education to get new jobs, even in fields that didn’t previously require it. By Robbie Feinberg BRUNSWICK, Maine — As the silkscreen printing company where...
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As enrollment falls and colleges close, a surprising number of new ones are...
PORTLAND, Maine — The ergonomic chairs, glass-walled conference rooms, ubiquitous technology and smell of new carpets and fresh paint scream well-funded startup. This story also appeared in The...
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A handful of colleges are finally providing training in a way consumers want...
Hear the radio version of this story about colleges speeding up training for career switchers By Danielle Prieur ORLANDO, Fla. — Cory Orr was working 70 hours a week in three jobs, often pulling...
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Credential chaos: Growing “maze” of education credentials is confusing...
When Nate Tsang gets a resume from a job applicant to his company, WallStreetZen, he often sees credentials he’s never heard of. This story also appeared in The Washington Post So these days, as part...
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