Nearly half of all students who enroll in college never finish. Are colleges and universities to blame?
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Community college students reveal some of the top reasons why they leave school without a degree.
Students who are the first in their family to attend college view a college degree differently than children of college-educated parents, researchers find.
Efforts to get more Americans to earn a college degree steal attention from what makes up a college education, a historian of education argues.
A political scientist explains how a new commission that wants to measure the economic value of a college degree could end up devaluing the liberal arts.
The presidents of the University of Michigan, the University of Oregon and The Ohio State University offer three ways to judge the value of a college education.
Double-majoring is thought to broaden your horizons and give you more career options. A new look at seven years of U.S. census data tells us that there may be a financial benefit as well.
College education results in not just better earnings, but better health care and child development as well as political stability and lower criminal justice costs. Should states invest more?
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Professor of Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education, Michigan State University
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Professor of Political Science, Fordham University
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Director of Learning & Teaching, University of California, Davis
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Professor of American History, Western Washington University
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Senior Research Analyst, Office of Institutional Planning and Research, University of Florida
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President, The Ohio State University
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Continuing Lecturer in Writing, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Assistant Professor of Higher Education and Policy, University of Florida
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Ph.D. Student, University of California, Davis
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Associate Professor of Higher Education Administration and Policy, University of Florida
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President, University of Michigan
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President, University of Oregon
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Associate Professor of Higher Education Leadership, University of California, Davis
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Associate Research Professor of Information Systems, Arizona State University; Institute for Humane Studies