Rural Students and Declining Opportunity
Rural students enrolled at regional public universities are facing declining opportunities as their underfunded colleges slash majors. While many colleges
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Incremental Gains in Campus Diversity: A New Report
Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce has released a new report, Progress Interrupted: Evaluating a Decade
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Organizing for Equity
The group Class Action has been doing great work around ending legacy admissions at elite campuses. There's much
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A Million People Serving the Public, Now Free of College Debt
There is still more work to be done, but as of today, one million people who chose work in the
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A New Residential Two Year College for Low-Income First-Gen Students
Boston College has opened a new small two-year residential junior college for low-income first-generation students. There is so much here
The Politics of Hunger on Campus
Nearly one in four undergraduates and one in eight graduate students face food insecurity. On some campuses, half of all
Dorm Room Designers and Disappearing Poor Students
At Ole Miss and other southern schools, hundreds of students are paying interior designers who specialize in dorm rooms to
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Rural Students Appearing on the Admissions Radar
In winter when the trees were bare, I could see the field of corn stubble from my bedroom window, just
Anthony Abraham Jack and the Intersections of Class and Race
Anthony Abraham Jack's new book Class Dismissed on the intersections of class and race in higher ed comes
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Elite Education for the Political Elite?
There is a lot of news today about the democratic Vice Presidential candidate Tim Walz, including the fact that he&
Legacy Admissions: Where Are We?
If you (like me) have been looking for updates on what states (and the feds) are doing to ban legacy
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Hungry Students
This week, the Government Accountability Office issued a new report on student food insecurity, and it's grim. * 23%