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OPINION: A New York model helps community college students reach their goals

The Hechinger Report

As public confidence in the value of higher education wanes, state and national higher education leaders must do more to invest in programs that have demonstrated success at improving college completion rates and helping students find well-paying jobs. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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OPINION: The pandemic exposes just how much support college students need

The Hechinger Report

The pandemic has clearly upended the college experience for a generation of students and higher education professionals. As school presidents agonize over how to reopen their campuses, student affairs and enrollment management leaders are working feverishly to make their services accessible to all students, wherever they are.

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As enrollment falls and colleges close, a surprising number of new ones are opening

The Hechinger Report

At a time when other higher education institutions are closing or merging because of a decline in the supply of high school graduates, the Roux is among a small but largely unnoticed number of new colleges that are opening. Everybody agrees that our higher education system is broken. Department of Education reports.

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What if we hired for skills, not degrees?

The Hechinger Report

This story is a part of our Map to the Middle Class project, in which readers ask questions about educational pathways to financial stability and then we investigate. They cited research showing that the proportion of job listings requiring a four-year degree increased by more than 10 percentage points from 2007 to 2010. .

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Can ‘work colleges’ in cities become a low-cost, high-value model for the future?

The Hechinger Report

For in-person instruction, students will go to classes at designated spaces easily accessible from their jobs and provided by the college’s corporate partners. The demographic that we serve is the demographic that is becoming the majority of higher education. More than 50 percent of higher education students are Pell grant students.

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Stop condemning high schools for college graduation rates

The Hechinger Report

The higher education research group Wisconsin Hope Lab defines food insecurity as “the limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods.” The College Cost Reduction and Access Act of 2007 provides resources in the form of financial assistance and services to make college accessible for homeless youth.

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Why decades of trying to end racial segregation in gifted education haven’t worked

The Hechinger Report

The gifted program at Eve opened two years ago as a way to increase access to Buffalo’s disproportionately white, in-demand gifted and talented programs. Buffalo educators hoped Eve’s new program would give more children — particularly children of color — a chance at enrichment and advanced learning. Inequity is the norm.

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