The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Why It Matters: More minority and low-income grads going to college could require stronger commitment to educate them. For higher education institutions to continue at that pace or boost it, they’ll need to find new ways of educating a student body increasingly composed of people who are the first in their family to enter college.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2019

In many instances, they are the first in their families to go to college, can’t afford expensive graduate educations and have little help navigating the route to an advanced degree. Sign up for our higher education newsletter. Photo: Thomas Weybrecht for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 21, 2023

But with customers getting harder to find, more colleges and universities are going to where the students are: in fast-growing cities that don’t already have a big supply of higher education institutions, such as Phoenix, Austin and Las Vegas. Las Vegas, by comparison, “is for all practical purposes an education desert.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Back in March of this year, EdSurge published my article outlining the nearly 400-year history of higher education in America, how that past shapes the way the country views colleges today, and why microcredentials , while critical to the future of the U.S. For one, agreement around the purpose of higher education is fragmented.

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