Tag: higher education

Why are so many small American colleges like Newbury closing?

Poverty and a lack of diversity are just a couple of pitfalls Jacqueline Alnes explores in this list.

“The longer these kids stayed there, the further behind they were.”

The struggles of a motivated, educated academic to find sufficient work.

The singer’s latest performance helps expand the possibilities of what it looks like to be a black thinking person.

Why the libertarian billionaire keeps tabs on the magazine he founded at Stanford 30 years ago.

Promethea’s education was the most important thing in her mother’s life. Then a mysterious benefactor made it his business as well.

Tuition-free college is a reality in California. The catch is that eligible students can’t always afford rent, food, or books.

A teacher at an elite boarding school confronts her own confused leap up the ladder of class privilege.

For talented black spellers in the 1960s, the segregated local spelling bee was the beginning and the end of the long road to Washington, D.C.

South African students of color are working to improve the conditions of education in a country that, twenty years after apartheid, is still rigged for the white minority.

When the people teaching Milton and Morrison subsist on leftover chips.

Can a liberal arts college foster a culture of experimentation and personal growth while also ensuring the safety of its students? Connecticut’s Wesleyan University has long had a reputation for progressive students and politics (“Keep Wesleyan Weird” is a common refrain on campus), but after a headline-grabbing drug debacle this spring, the community finds itself grappling with the […]