By Sheila Livadas. An overview of the largest graduate degree programs at local colleges and universities confirms what Upstate New Yorkers already know: Students from all over the world flock to the Rochester area to advance their studies and careers.
Their presence is felt far and wide; they bolster the area’s intellectual cachet and keep the higher education sector humming along. More...

Maryland is already one of the best educated states in the nation, ranking at or near the top when it comes to the percentage of residents with college and post-graduate degrees. But state leaders, looking at an increasingly competitive, knowledge-based global economy, think that's not going to be nearly good enough. About 45 percent of the state's adults have at least an associate's degree now, but state leaders decided in 2009 that it should aim to bump that up to 55 percent by 2025. Read more...

By Richard D. Kahlenberg. Opponents of affirmative action have leveled a new three-pronged attack on affirmative action in higher education that could significantly change admissions at selective universities and colleges for the better. The Project on Fair Representation, which was behind the recent Supreme Court litigation in Fisher v. University of Texas, has launched websites soliciting white and Asian plaintiffs who believe they were discriminated against by racial-preference policies at three institutions: Harvard University, the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. More...