A scholar weighs in on a new lawsuit that accuses several elite schools of price fixing and conspiring to lower the amount of financial aid offered to low-income students.
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Students who are the first in their family to attend college view a college degree differently than children of college-educated parents, researchers find.
Student loan forgiveness doesn’t benefit the economy the way some advocates believe it would, an economist argues.
College students with children have slightly higher GPAs but often take a longer time to graduate and are more likely to drop out of school.
Student math skills dropped during the pandemic. A business professor believes using sports cards in class could help turn that around.
People who struggle with numbers are also likely to struggle in life, new research shows.
Student loan debt can hurt borrowers, but the pain is even greater when the borrower is taking out a student loan for their child, new research shows.
A comic-based curriculum for after-school programs could hold the key to unlocking girls’ interest in careers in cybersecurity.
The US has a growing demand for nurses. Yet nursing schools are turning away many qualified candidates.
Foreign graduate students in the US face a slew of obstacles when it comes to advancing their research careers. Four international Ph.D. students in neuroscience offer some suggestions.
If colleges want to address systemic racism within their institutions, they can start by crediting female faculty members of color for work that gets overlooked. A group of higher ed researchers explains how.
Little comprehensive research about what the charitable accounts, known as DAFs, are supporting has been conducted until now.
The US has experienced a record decline in the number of international students. How long will the trend continue? An international education scholar weighs in.
Students from low-income backgrounds fare better when they are able to take career and technical classes in STEM, new research shows.
A former video game executive offers advice on how to land a job in the industry.
Teaching entrepreneurial skills is a staple in business schools. But it can benefit all students – including majors in engineering, agriculture and even the arts.
Enrollment in online courses surged during the pandemic. An expert on online learning behaviors shares what to do before, during and after taking a course in order to reap the most benefits.
Net price calculators – online tools meant to estimate what students will actually pay for college – can produce varying results for students in similar economic situations, researchers find.
Elite universities have been giving special preference to children of prior graduates for more than a century. Has the time come for that practice to stop? A sociologist weighs in.
Researchers say educators told them that immigrant students are sometimes made to believe they will be deported. Why? One reason is educators didn’t want them to drag down their school’s test scores.
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Adjunct Professor, Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California
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Associate Vice Provost for International Education, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Associate Professor of Public Policy & Education, Vanderbilt University
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Associate Professor of Higher Education, Seton Hall University
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Assistant Professor of Education Policy and Psychology and Endowed Chair, University of Arkansas
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Professor of Higher Education, The Ohio State University
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Professor of Political Science, Fordham University
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Professor of Higher Education, University of Pennsylvania
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, The University of Texas at San Antonio
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Professor of Economics, University of New Orleans
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Assistant Professor of Sport Management, State University of New York College at Cortland
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Presidential Fellow, Texas State University
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Assistant Professor of Legal Studies, Oklahoma State University
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Professor of Management, University of North Carolina – Greensboro
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Assistant Professor of Adult and Higher Education, Director of the Center for Research on College-Workforce Transitions, University of Wisconsin-Madison
