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Japan Expected to Lose 140,000 Students by Midcentury
The decline could prompt government intervention.
Major Restriction Policies Work Against Diversity
A new report from Brookings warns that underrepresented minority students were less likely to earn degrees in high-earning majors, tied to institutional policies around change of major.
Senate Proposes $250 Pell Grant Increase
The Senate wants to give the Education Department more money; House Republicans would cut billions. Dueling budgets show the yawning gaps between the chambers.
House Subcommittee Members Disagree Over Higher Ed’s Value
Republicans argue that college prices are too high for inadequate outcomes and that institutions are to blame. Democrats focus their ire on for-profit colleges.
Higher Ed Under Threat
Attacks on public higher education are attacks on American democracy, Philip DiStefano writes.
RAND Corporation Graduate Student Researchers Unionize
Man Arrested for Planning Mass Shootings at Brown, UConn
Hard Choices Amid Purdue-Indiana Split
Numerous Indiana University employees will move to Purdue as the institutions dissolve their joint venture in Indianapolis. But many faculty members worry they’ll be left without tenure or a departmental home.