Higher Education

Higher Education

• What happens when community college is made free (The Conversation)
  

• The 5 worst things about colleges in America (New York Post)
  
• Generation Z is starting university – but is higher education ready? (The Guardian)
• The politics of math: Is algebra necessary to obtain a college degree? (Los Angeles Times)
• The Broken Promise of Higher Education (The Atlantic)

College Attendance

• 3 Million Americans Live in Higher Education Deserts (Inside Higher Ed)
• The Rural Higher-Education Crisis (The Atlantic)
• This Is the Way the College ‘Bubble’ Ends (The Atlantic)
• This is what today’s college students really look like (Market Watch)

College Performance

• More of Today's College Students Striving for Perfection, Study Says (U.S. News & World Report)
• College Students Think They’re Ready for the Work Force. Employers Aren’t So Sure (The Chronical of Higher Education)

Higher Education Attainment

• Americans who haven't gone to college are way worse off today than 40 years ago (Business Insider)

Higher Education & Gender

• Where Have All the Men Without College Degrees Gone? (The Atlantic)

• Why Men Are the New College Minority (The Atlantic)

Higher Education & Ethnicity

• College isn’t a cure for the racial wealth gap (Futurity)

• Asians are being used to make the case against affirmative action. Again. (Vox)
• Gaps in College Spending Shortchange Students of Color (Center for American Progress)
• More Hispanics are going to college and graduating, but disparity persists (PBS Newshour)
• Behind the Latino college degree gap (The Hechinger Report)
• Why Higher Education Depends On The Hispanic Market (Media Post)
• African-American college graduation rates hit all-time high, so why not their finances? (Market Watch)
• Perilous times for black colleges (Atlanta Constitutional Journal)
• Average White high school dropout earns more than Black college grad (Rolling Out)
• African American students thrive with high graduation rates at UC Riverside (Los Angeles Times)

Higher Education & Social Class

• Elite Colleges Constantly Tell Low-Income Students That They Do Not Belong (The Atlantic)

• What the Privileged Poor Can Teach Us (The New York Times)

• How Wealthy Parents Reproduce College Success (The Society Pages)

• The subtle ways colleges discriminate against poor students, explained with a cartoon (Vox)
• How Factory Closures Doom the Next Generation (The Atlantic)
• Can people “like me” go to college? Inequality and dreams of higher ed (Salon)

Higher Education Admissions

• The real college admissions scandal is what’s legal (Vox)
• Elite-College Admissions Were Built to Protect Privilege (The Atlantic)
• Sociology Professor on the Long History of Elites Gaming the College Admissions System (The New Yorker)
• How Admissions Really Work (NPR)
• It's not just corruption. Entrance into elite US colleges is rigged in every way (The Guardian)

Technical & Vocational Training

• High-Paying Trade Jobs Sit Empty, While High School Grads Line Up For University (National Public Radio)
• Why an Honors Student Wants to Skip College and Go to Trade School (Wall Street Journal)
• After decades of pushing bachelor’s degrees, U.S. needs more tradespeople (PBS Newshour)

Higher Education, Cost &  Debt

• Europe Has Free College. Here’s How It’s Working Out (The Daily Signal)

• Surging college loan debt is having an especially big impact on African Americans (CNBC)

• Cradle to Grade: Living A Lifetime of Student Loan Debt (NPR)

• Here’s Why So Many Americans Feel Cheated By Their Student Loans (Buzz Feed News)

• Tennessee's Free Community College Tuition Plan (National Review)
• We studied thousands of people with student loans — here's how much money they have (Business Insider)
• How Student Loans are Killing Homeownership (City Lab)
• Why Students Are Still Spending So Much for College Textbooks (The Atlantic)
• Student Loans Are Hurting Women More Than Men (The Motley Fool)
• U.S. college tuition is the highest in the world (Salon)

Higher Education & Profit Colleges

• How For-Profit Colleges Sell 'Risky Education' To The Most Vulnerable (NPR)

Teaching Profession

• Secret lives of Bay Area part-time profs: Here's why they work at Safeway, live out of cars (San Francisco Gate)
• Students Ask Female Professors For More Favors Than Male Ones (Bustle)
• Too Many People Dream of a Charmed Life in Academia (Bloomberg)
• Facing poverty, academics turn to sex work and sleeping in cars (The Guardian)

College & University Experience

• The tough pre-college talk I wish my parents had initiated (Los Angeles Times)
• Cornell freshman's video on loneliness of college gets national attention (New York Upstate)
• Fox Club Again All-Male After 'Provisional' Membership Revoked for Women (The Harvard Crimson)
• College fraternities will make you dumber — and richer (Market Watch)

Students & Mental Health

• Mental health problems rising among college students (NBC News)

Higher Education & Economic Predictors

• The Financial Returns from College across Generations: Large but Unequal (Federal Reserve)
• Americans who go to college are four times better off than everyone else (Quartz)
• The Successful College Dropout Is a Myth (Time)
• More proof that college is key to the American Dream (CNN)
• New data show that joining the 1% remains unsettlingly hereditary (Economist)
• The Most Predictive Factors of Post-Graduation Wages (The Atlantic)