Connect with the people and ideas reshaping higher education, written by Goldie Blumenstyk. Delivered on Wednesdays.
Newsletter Archive
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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.
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Aug. 4, 2021A new proposal for federal grants would deploy universities in distressed communities to improve local educational, cultural, and business opportunities.
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July 28, 2021Keep up with the latest findings and recommendations to lift students’ enrollment, progress, and career prospects.
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July 21, 2021By all appearances, it seems the selection process for the Aspen Institute’s Community College Excellence Prize is doing double duty.
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July 14, 2021Catch up on the latest proposals in our annotated reading list.