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Free community college programs increase enrollment — and strain staff

by Carrie Jung
Apr 24, 2024
Free tuition programs in two New England states have brought thousands of new students into community college classrooms. But they're also straining some schools' faculty and financial aid staff.
Fernando Garcia-Rodriguez, assistant director of Mount Wachusett Community College Educational Opportunity Center, and Cassie Peltola, a community outreach counselor, look at a FAFSA online application form.
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Vanderbilt will soon cost $100,000 a year for some students. How did we get here?

by David Brancaccio and Nic Perez
Apr 8, 2024
While Vanderbilt offers merit aid and need-based financial aid, its high sticker cost says a lot about college affordability in the U.S.
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Higher ed expands in prisons as students prepare for life on the outside

by Elizabeth Trovall
Mar 6, 2024
Schools are seeking government approval to start degree programs after financial aid for incarcerated students was fully reinstated.
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Brenda Brooks dropped out of college 40 years ago. Federal rules mean she can’t afford to return.

by Lisa Kurian Philip
Feb 29, 2024
Now 60, she learned that her decades-old GPA disqualifies her from receiving federal loans or grants.
Brooks started college in the 1980s as a young adult with two small children. Like 40 million other Americans, she didn't finish.
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College and university endowments had a good 2023 thanks to the stock market

by Stephanie Hughes
Feb 15, 2024
Larger endowments — which tend to invest more in private equity and venture capital — didn't do as well as smaller ones that stuck to investment basics.
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Why some college athletes want to unionize

by Samantha Fields
Feb 7, 2024
A regional director of the National Labor Relations Board has ruled that Dartmouth's men's basketball players are employees who can form a union.
Players on the Dartmouth Big Green basketball team filed a petition to unionize in the fall. Above, the Dartmouth Big Green basketball team in 2021.
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The economic implications of graduating college at an older age

by David Brancaccio , Chris Farrell and Alex Schroeder
Jan 15, 2024
A new study finds that "a large fraction — around 20% — of college graduates obtained their degree after age 30."
"Late bloomers account for more than half of the growth in the share of college-educated adults from 1960 to 2019," said Marketplace senior economics contributor Chris Farrell.
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An improved FAFSA is on the way, but delays mean students and schools will have to scramble

by Stephanie Hughes
Nov 16, 2023
This year's form will be shorter and easier to fill out. But it'll also arrive more than two months late.
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"American companies are going to have to work harder": How today's affirmative action ruling puts U.S. companies at a disadvantage

by Kai Ryssdal and Andie Corban
Jun 29, 2023
Peter Blair Henry, Dean Emeritus of NYU's business school, explains how today's ruling will affect corporate performance.
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Why are HBCUs underfunded?

by Richard Cunningham
Jun 22, 2023
While HBCUs provide bright futures for Black students, they aren’t as well funded as other prestige universities.
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