Connect with the people and ideas reshaping higher education, written by Goldie Blumenstyk. Delivered on Wednesdays.
Newsletter Archive
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Oct. 13, 2021How can prospective students see the value of colleges’ and other providers’ academic and work-force-training programs?
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Oct. 6, 2021An online institution spins off from a private university on one coast and joins a public system on the other. Now what?
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Sept. 29, 2021Hear the latest on redesigning programs meant to improve student success and make college more affordable.
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Sept. 22, 2021On holiday, this newsletter writer offers up some thoughts on vacation reads — for herself and you.
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Sept. 15, 2021A new report sheds some light on Walmart’s program, one of the largest, but the analysis is unrevealing and unhelpful in many important ways.
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Sept. 8, 2021Three colleges share their strategies for retaining Pell-eligible students, and an entrepreneur focuses on connections and familiarity.
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Sept. 1, 2021Check out new tools showing state-by-state trends and disparities by race, ethnicity, and age, and examine the impact of “stranded credits.”
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Aug. 25, 2021Members of the American Talent Initiative weren’t living up to their pledge even before the pandemic. Now they’re committing to do better.
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Aug. 18, 2021Read about a way to help low-income students that’s “more progressive” than free college, the latest open-educational resources, and boot-camp blindspots.
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Aug. 11, 2021Deep listening, a lot of empathy, and appeals to faith can be persuasive, participants in a $5-million project have learned.