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OPINION: With a skeptical public, higher education must do a better job explaining why college is worth the investment

The Hechinger Report

Reflecting the pressures on campuses today, a recent study indicates eroding confidence in higher education: In late 2022 only 55 percent of Americans surveyed said that “colleges and universities were having a positive effect on the way things were going,” compared with 69 percent in early 2020. How do we reverse this crisis in confidence?

Sociology 109
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A regional public university’s identity crisis

The Hechinger Report

said Christina Ciocca Eller, an assistant professor of sociology and social studies at Harvard University who studies regional public universities. That is $3,792 in 2020 dollars. From 2005 to 2020, Vedder said, O.U. Jennifer Fredette, an associate professor of political science and an active member of the O.U.-A.A.U.P.,

Economics 128
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Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts

The Hechinger Report

A concerted campuswide campaign that includes interventions like the one that rescued Dickinson has since more than doubled that proportion, to nearly half in 2020, the last year for which the figure is available. Credit: Saul Martinez for The Hechinger Report. At community colleges, nearly half the students quit after their first year.

Sociology 128
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College Uncovered: The Rural Higher Education Blues

The Hechinger Report

Political science. Sixteen of them have closed just since 2020. And Emporia State in Kansas, Missouri Western State University, the University of Alaska system. And these aren’t just a few programs here and there that were dropped, Kirk, but dozens. Criminal justice. Philosophy. Kirk: Okay, we get it.

Education 135
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‘Easy to just write us off’: Rural students’ choices shrink as colleges slash majors

The Hechinger Report

Meanwhile, more than a dozen private, nonprofit universities and colleges in rural areas or that serve large proportions of rural students have closed outright since 2020; some of the rural private institutions that remain are also axing majors. The proportion of rural high school graduates going to college at all is falling.

Geography 138
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As Humanities Fight for Support, New Journal Aims to Celebrate Their Role in Public Life

ED Surge

That includes, the editors note, anthropology, archaeology, classics, cultural studies, disability studies, ethnic studies, gender studies, history, law, linguistics, literary studies, performing arts, religious studies, philosophy, postcolonial studies, queer studies, psychology, sociology, visual arts, and women's studies.