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Long disparaged, education for the skilled trades is slowly coming into fashion
MEDIA, Pa. — Young men in jackets and ties walk along tidy walkways that connect the redbrick buildings of the 220-acre campus of the Williamson College of the Trades. This story also appeared in The...
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Facing an existential crisis, some colleges do something rare for them — adapt
PORTLAND, Maine — Just beyond the entrance to the onetime department store that now serves as the home of the Maine College of Art & Design is a long room with high ceilings in which students in...
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Another million adults ‘have stepped off the path to the middle class’
Slower economic growth. Continued labor shortages. Lower life expectancy. Higher levels of divorce. More demand for social services, but less tax revenue to pay for it. This story also appeared in The...
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Inflation is coming to college campuses. Prepare to pay more.
Like chief financial officers at universities and colleges everywhere, David Jewell is having a stressful winter. This story also appeared in NBC News The senior vice president for business affairs...
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The colleges that won’t die
AMHERST, Mass. — When Alex Robinson told relatives and friends he was considering going to Hampshire College, “every single person was, like, ‘Oh, isn’t that the school that’s shutting down?’ ” This...
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Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts
BOCA RATON, Fla. — With no one to support him after leaving foster care when he turned 18, Hasan Dickinson held down two jobs during his first semester at a large state university, running for the bus...
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With tenure under attack, professors join forces with a powerful teachers’ union
On paper, Asia Leeds had the perfect career. An assistant professor at Spelman College in Atlanta, she could focus on her passion of studying Afro-Latin American culture. This story also appeared in...
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Momentum builds behind a way to lower the cost of college: A degree in three...
WASHINGTON — Like many high school seniors, Grant Austin Robert Simms was bombarded with marketing materials from colleges that showed euphoric students enjoying athletics, extracurricular clubs and...
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As businesses hunt for educated workers, states are loosening the purse...
“Investing in our conveyor belt for talent.” This story also appeared in USA Today That’s how Gov. Gavin Newsom described a proposed spending hike for California’s public colleges and universities....
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To recruit new hires, big employers team up with historically Black colleges
As it did in workplaces worldwide, the killing of George Floyd — just a few miles from its offices in Minneapolis — led to deep introspection about diversity and fairness at the Solve advertising...
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A new way to help college students transfer: Admit them to two schools at once
Amoni Hall will move this summer from one higher education institution to another, a process that can be disruptive, complex, frustrating and fruitless when credits don’t transfer and other...
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Spiraling rents are wreaking havoc on college students seeking housing for...
BERKELEY, Calif. — When she transferred to the University of California, Berkeley, JoLynn Kelly split a bunk bed in a tiny loft apartment — and the $2,800 a month it cost to rent. This story also...
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How higher education lost its shine
LA VERGNE, Tenn. — As the football and girls’ soccer teams sweated through summer practice on the athletics fields at LaVergne High School, a small group of adult advisers inside shared tales of their...
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One state offers lessons in how to cope with the college enrollment crisis
ORONO, Maine — Chris Richards took in the scene around him and breathed a sigh of relief. This story also appeared in The Maine Monitor and USA Today It was the first day of freshman orientation at...
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The unasked question about the student loan bailout: What’s colleges’...
Listen to an audio version of this story from GBH Audio by Kirk Carapezza As an advocate for people struggling to repay their college loans, Claudio Martinez followed every step of the process that...
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Momentum builds for helping students adapt to college by nixing freshman grades
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — Joy Malak floundered through her freshman year in college. This story also appeared in National Public Radio “I had to learn how to balance my finances. I had to learn how to...
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What researchers learned about online higher education during the pandemic
Kameshwari Shankar watched for years as college and university courses were increasingly taught online instead of face to face, but without a definitive way of understanding which students benefited...
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Struggling small colleges are joining the ‘sharing economy’ — teaming up to...
Dylan Smith went to high school just two miles from Adrian College, but wasn’t interested in applying to the Michigan liberal arts school of about 1,600 undergraduates. As much as he liked the idea of...
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As enrollment falls and public skepticism grows, some colleges are cutting...
NEW LONDON, N.H. — Bright fall hues and neatly manicured lawns frame redbrick buildings and a white wooden church steeple on a peaceful New England main street with a view of the White Mountains in...
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A battle at one university is a case study in why higher education is so slow...
OREM, Utah — Of the many things that happen at a university, it seemed among the most mundane: the periodic task of coming up with those “core values” that flash from websites or are splashed on...
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