Efforts to get more Americans to earn a college degree steal attention from what makes up a college education, a historian of education argues.
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A handful of high-profile executives have humanities degrees. But those standouts make up a small proportion of the total pool of American executives.
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 May jobs report showed that US unemployment is at about a 50-year low. That's not how it feels to many men who've never been to college.
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.
Three out of 10 students borrow the maximum amount available to them as loans. How well do students understand the long-term costs of borrowing?
A changing world has affected educated workers decisions about where they want to live and work. What are the choices millennials are making?
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.
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Henry J. Leir Professor of Practice in Economics of the Middle East, Brandeis University
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Professor of Educational Policy Studies & Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Professor of Education Policy Studies, Penn State
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Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Science, The Ohio State University
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Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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The William Ray and Marie Adamson Flesher Professor of Higher Education, The Ohio State University
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Professor/Economist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Senior Associate Director, The Ohio State University
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Associate Professor of Consumer Sciences, The Ohio State University
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Professor of American History, Western Washington University
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President, University of Oregon
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President, University of Michigan
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President, The Ohio State University
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Assistant Professor of Economics, Middlebury
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Senior Lecturer, INSEAD
