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Diminishing Returns
By Eric Hoover May 19, 2025
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
By Adrienne Lu May 14, 2025
Faculty salaries haven’t moved for over a decade, and draconian cuts to higher ed threaten to make things worse.
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By Adrienne Lu April 24, 2025
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
By Francie Diep April 24, 2025
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.