We’re expanding to Florida
A new partnership expands our local network to Tampa.
How does this tiny Colorado town send most students to college?
Less than half of rural Colorado's high school graduates go to college, a rate about five points below the state average. Fowler bucks that trend.
Aroma of legitimacy
When a multi-level marketing company struck a deal with the U. of Mississippi, it got more than research into lavender oil. It got credibility.
Life without loans
When one of your monthly bills suddenly disappears, what do you do with that newfound cash? That's been the question for roughly 40 million Americans during the pandemic as the government froze repayments on student loans.
The trick of prestige
Our latest Bootstraps episode looks at how the world's most prestigious scholarship is wrestling with its legacy.
Everything old is new again
Three higher ed news stories jumped out to us this week. And as is so often the case, they feel like shadows of stories we've seen — or written — before.
Who could be against social-mobility rankings?
Such rankings suggest colleges "cause" social mobility, one expert says in his critique. But local conditions create much of the context that allows for a college degree to pay off.
Inside Mississippi’s only class on critical race theory
It changed the mind of one white conservative student who enrolled: “Why are they so fearful of people just theorizing and just thinking?"
Is college admissions broken? Or working exactly as intended?
The "reputational model" of higher ed is based on a fundamental preoccupation with exclusivity, a new report says, and colleges must examine the consequences.
When the SAT feels like a lock, not a key
"What I would hope that colleges are thinking about and looking for when they’re identifying students [is] asking, ‘Is the seed there enough to grow, nurture, and plant into something beautiful?’ Or are you looking for a static, ready-made product that you don’t have to do anything with?"