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Access & Affordability
Shuttering the program, which had been expected to lend out about $19 billion annually over the next decade, could make graduate education very costly or unattainable, warns the Council of Graduate Schools.
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From the Almanac: Trending Topics
How has inflation impacted higher education? Which institutions spent a billion dollars or more on research and development? Who do colleges think their peers are? A look at where things stand.
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From the Almanac: Views of the Higher Ed Landscape Over Time
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Diminishing Returns
Attending college once provided a similar payoff for students regardless of their parents’ income. But that’s no longer the case, according to new research.
Stagnant pay
Faculty salaries haven’t moved for over a decade, and draconian cuts to higher ed threaten to make things worse.
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The food-service workers, electricians, groundskeepers, and other skilled craft workers were laid off amid budget cuts or their work was outsourced, according to experts.
Redefining Success
New labels assessing colleges’ minority and low-income enrollments, and students’ later earnings, suggest a new orientation from one of higher education’s longtime arbiters of prestige.
