Students of color graduate at higher rates when they go to colleges where there are larger portions of the student body and faculty who are also of color.
Students who are the first in their family to attend college view a college degree differently than children of college-educated parents, researchers find.
Jamaal Abdul-Alim, The Conversation and Alvin Buyinza, The Conversation
As federal student loan debt continues to rise, a number of scholars discuss how debt affects the nation’s college students, graduates and the economy as a whole.
Though some have suggested that college majors should be scrapped, a higher education scholar warns that getting rid of college majors may create more problems than it solves.
The presidents of the University of Michigan, the University of Oregon and The Ohio State University offer three ways to judge the value of a college education.
Double-majoring is thought to broaden your horizons and give you more career options. A new look at seven years of U.S. census data tells us that there may be a financial benefit as well.
Kevin Kinser, University at Albany, State University of New York
For-profit colleges and universities have been in a lot of trouble. But the case of Trump University is different. To start with, it cannot even be called a for-profit university.
The affordability of college has been at the forefront of the presidential campaign, but the real problem is that we’re too educated for the jobs available.
Students are going hungry on college campuses. The latest survey shows that four in 10 University of California students do not have access to nutritious food.