Opinion: Financial aid programs contribute to racial inequality within higher education
THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION — At face value, there is nothing about the college financial-aid system that would indicate that it generates racial inequities. Families input their income and assets onto the FAFSA, and that information is used to determine their financial-aid award. Those with lower income and fewer assets pay less. The form…
Read More about Opinion: Financial aid programs contribute to racial inequality within higher educationWomen make up the majority of the college-educated workforce
INSIDE HIGHER ED — Women now make up a majority of the U.S. workforce with at least a bachelor’s degree, according to a new analysis of federal data from the Pew Research Center.
Read More about Women make up the majority of the college-educated workforcePodcast: A look at the public’s concerns over the value of higher education
THE KEY PODCAST — Americans aren’t questioning the importance of higher education, but they’re concerned it is unaffordable and unavailable for too many people. Experts dig into the data.
Read More about Podcast: A look at the public’s concerns over the value of higher educationWhy graduate students should join student organizations
INSIDE HIGHER ED — I learned that graduate student organizations often play an integral part in weaving the fabric of the graduate student experience at an institution. They represent graduate student interests and voices at various levels with the university administration.
Read More about Why graduate students should join student organizationsHow HBCUs have utilized COVID-19 relief funding
NPR — HBCUs have long been underfunded by federal and state governments. But this time, because of the way federal COVID relief money was allocated, these schools got a lot of it. For one thing, much of the funding targeted schools that serve more low-income students, which HBCUs do.
Read More about How HBCUs have utilized COVID-19 relief fundingBlack students in community colleges struggle with learning outcomes
INSIDE HIGHER ED — While Black students disproportionately attend community colleges, their enrollment at these institutions has significantly dropped and gaps in their academic outcomes have more than doubled over time compared to their white peers, according to a new report by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a think tank focused on…
Read More about Black students in community colleges struggle with learning outcomesFive universities produce one eighth of all tenure-track professors in the country
THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION — Just five universities have produced one-eighth of the U.S. professoriate, and 80 percent of tenure-track professors at doctoral institutions earned their Ph.D.s from 20 percent of the nation’s universities.
Read More about Five universities produce one eighth of all tenure-track professors in the countryDepartment of Education receives thousands of comments on proposed Title IX regulations
INSIDE HIGHER ED — Higher education associations generally like Education Secretary Miguel Cardona’s new regulations for Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 but want more clarity about how the changes would be carried out, as well as more time to put policies in place.
Read More about Department of Education receives thousands of comments on proposed Title IX regulationsCollege tuition increases have been slow and steady despite inflation
THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION — While high inflation continues to bedevil the wider economy, those price increases have yet to translate into significant spikes in college-tuition costs across the nation, according to data released on Tuesday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Read More about College tuition increases have been slow and steady despite inflationGates Foundation donates to organizations transforming higher education
HIGHER ED DIVE — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will spend $100 million over five years to fund a group of nonprofit organizations working to help colleges “transform themselves” in the face of falling enrollment, increasing demands for educated workers and declining public confidence in higher education, it said Thursday.
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