The Trump administration, according to recent reports, is preparing to redirect resources at the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division away from disadvantaged groups such as African-Americans and Latinos in order to push against affirmative action initiatives. This would be a terrible mistake. More...
24 octobre 2017
Affirmative action and the pursuit of the American Dream
Connecticut’s budget needs to encourage more higher ed, not hamper it
Connecticut is not getting the message sent by General Electric, Aetna and other corporations who have either left the state for greener pastures or are contemplating a move. More...
Trump ends DACA, calls on Congress to act
The Trump administration Tuesday formally announced it will end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program — also called DACA — putting an expiration date on the legal protections granted to roughly 800,000 people known as "DREAMers," who entered the country illegally as children. More...
How higher ed leaders are fighting for DACA
Amid the torrent of pleas to President Trump this week to protect Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) are letters written by several university presidents. In a noteworthy showing of direct engagement in political discourse, the presidents of Harvard, Princeton, Yale, and Duke, for example, have written personal letters this week. More...
Optimizing for conversions? Don’t rely solely on Google Attribution
While the new Google Attribution leverages data from Google Analytics, that platform alone may not yield the best conversion results. More...
Small private colleges can survive
With high school populations declining throughout New England and in several other regions of the country, it’s only natural to be concerned about the fiscal challenges confronting our nation’s private colleges and universities. More...
Degrees that Matter: The Value of Independent Sector Colleges and Universities to Students, Parents, and Communities
Ever since the first independent (private, not-for-profit) institution of higher learning was established centuries ago, these colleges and universities have served as a rising tide lifting students educationally, economically and socially. There is no greater engine for social mobility than a college degree. More...
Noam Chomsky leaves MIT to join University of Arizona faculty
The university announced earlier this month that Chomsky, 88, will serve as a laureate professor in the Department of Linguistics in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences and will begin teaching next year. More...
The biggest misconception about today’s college students
Of the country’s nearly 18 million undergraduates, more than 40 percent go to community college, and of those, only 62 percent can afford to go to college full-time. By contrast, a mere 0.4 percent of students in the United States attend one of the Ivies. More...
Seven challenges facing higher education
For more than 15 years, I have redirected my academic career away from economic history, labor economics, and public finance towards the economics of higher education, and have made, with frequent urgency, several arguments, all pointing to a growing, unsustainable crisis that is requiring solutions. More...
