What students say we’re missing about financial aid
They need more help with financial literacy, when situations change, and with life outside of school.
How student loans worsen racial wealth gaps
Black college graduates owe an average of $25,000 more in student loans than white college graduates. And Hispanic borrowers were most likely to delay getting married and having children due to student debt.
When a college asks you to apply
College admissions is often framed around scarcity. What if colleges focused on a process that emphasized opportunity instead?
A platform for first-gen students
Over the past two years, Zipporah Osei offered readers personal insight into the experience of being a first-generation college student through her Open Campus newsletter, First Gen. Here's what she learned.
Achievement, race, and the American suburb
"We have to have a much more nuanced understanding of the role that race plays in shaping opportunities," says the author of a new book about the pursuit of the American dream in the suburbs.
The complicated reality of a healthcare career in Pittsburgh
Health and medicine have become pillars of the Pittsburgh economy, but training programs are struggling to attract students in fields with poor job satisfaction.
Shifts in demographics requires a shift in thinking
What responsibility does a college have to change when its student population changes? This new Hispanic-serving university started with the cost of books.
Parent loans, another piece in the wealth gap puzzle
The loans prove risky for some families because, unlike direct student loans, they have so few options to decrease monthly payments.
The weight of being ‘the first’
There's no great joy in being the first African American president, says Dwight McBride of the New School. It's a reminder of how much progress still needs to be made.
The role of race in merit aid in the South
"I really want to call attention to the fact that we are excluding almost an entire population of students," one Florida educator said.