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Economic and racial stratification is increasing in American higher education, with growing concentrations of needy students at community colleges.
Meanwhile, government funding skews toward universities with more advantaged students, due in part to research support and tax breaks.
Those are the findings of a new report from a panel convened by the Century Foundation. The paper, dubbed “Bridging the Higher Education Divide,” includes policy recommendations to...
When you think of higher education in America, you likely picture places such as Harvard or Stanford with ivy-covered brick libraries or the large state universities with passionate alumni and impressive sports programs. But in fact, many more students – almost half of those in post-secondary schooling – attend our nation's community colleges; low-cost two –year institutions that seek to serve large numbers of the aspiring middle-class.
Because we know that...
Pearson is taking the hassle out of getting to the airport. Book your seat now on their airport shuttles and enjoy the last day of the APSCU 2013 Conference knowing your transportation is taken care of by your partners at Pearson.
Buses will depart from the Sebastian Curb at the Rosen Shingle Creek to the airport on Friday, June 7, 2013 after the Pearson-sponsored closing general session and awards luncheon.
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Here's a course topic not currently offered by any of the providers of massive open online courses: "The Implications of Coursera’s For-Profit Business Model for Global Public Education."
The course was proposed last week by Robert Meister, professor of political and social thought in the department of the history of consciousness at the University of California at Santa Cruz and president of the Council of UC Faculty Associations.
He sent a letter with his...
NEW YORK (AP) - U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is hoping to relieve the debt burden of millions of students who have borrowed to pay for their education - especially New Yorkers, who average nearly $30,000 in student debt.
The New York Democrat announced Sunday the Federal Student Loan Refinancing Act, a bill that would lower interest rates for many student borrowers currently repaying their federal student loans.
"More city graduates and middle class families are burdened...
