Higher EducationWBUR's coverage of higher education news.I didn't cry when I took my son to college. Then I got homeI pull into our driveway and see the house listing, as it prepares to welcome back three, not four, writes Bill Eville. Sep 8, 2022Let's forgive student debt, but only for the hardest-luck borrowersPresident Biden shouldn't listen to those who push for greater student loan forgiveness, writes Rich Barlow.Jun 9, 2022Advertisement MIT’s investment in fossil fuels is wrong. We also think it's illegalMIT refuses to use its power — including control of its $27.4 billion endowment — for climate action, write Owen Leddy and Ellie Rabenold.Feb 22, 2022Why we stopped grading our students on their writingExternal motivations like grades squash internal ones like curiosity and interest, the mindsets that motivate learning, write Marisa Milanese and Gwen Kordonowy.Jan 12, 2022Public College Is Expensive, Too. My Son Has $27K In Debt — From UMassGraduates of public universities in Massachusetts once had the second-lowest student debt in the country, writes Nancy Grossman. Now they have one of the highest.May 25, 2021Disgusted By The College Cheating Scandal? Free Public College Is One RemedyLet's reroute the roughly $70 billion the federal government spends on college aid to the states, writes Rich Barlow.Mar 19, 2019How A 1 Percent Fee On College Endowments Could Benefit All StudentsBy placing a public digital library at the heart of higher education in Massachusetts, writes Susan E. Gallagher, we can turn our state’s celebrated commitment to academic opportunity into a...Oct 18, 2018The Case For Liberal ArtsMany students enter college unsure of what they want to be when they grow up, writes Rich Barlow. Liberal arts let them explore various fields and options. Jul 13, 20181 In 10 College Students In Mass. Are Homeless. More Are Hungry. It's Past Time We Recognize Their RealityHunger and homelessness prevent thousands of Massachusetts students from completing a college degree, write Sara Goldrick-Rab and Pam Eddinger.May 17, 2018Lost In the News Over Mount Ida's Fate? The Faculty And StaffNews reports of Mount Ida’s closure have focused on the business ethics of the acquisition and the academic fate of students, writes Christopher John Stephens. What about the faculty and...Apr 19, 2018For Low-Income Students, Public Colleges Are The Ivy League For Economic MobilityOur public universities and colleges are better at getting low-income students up the economic ladder than experts realized, writes Rich Barlow. But President Trump has no plan to support them.Mar 23, 2017
I didn't cry when I took my son to college. Then I got homeI pull into our driveway and see the house listing, as it prepares to welcome back three, not four, writes Bill Eville. Sep 8, 2022
Let's forgive student debt, but only for the hardest-luck borrowersPresident Biden shouldn't listen to those who push for greater student loan forgiveness, writes Rich Barlow.Jun 9, 2022
MIT’s investment in fossil fuels is wrong. We also think it's illegalMIT refuses to use its power — including control of its $27.4 billion endowment — for climate action, write Owen Leddy and Ellie Rabenold.Feb 22, 2022
Why we stopped grading our students on their writingExternal motivations like grades squash internal ones like curiosity and interest, the mindsets that motivate learning, write Marisa Milanese and Gwen Kordonowy.Jan 12, 2022
Public College Is Expensive, Too. My Son Has $27K In Debt — From UMassGraduates of public universities in Massachusetts once had the second-lowest student debt in the country, writes Nancy Grossman. Now they have one of the highest.May 25, 2021
Disgusted By The College Cheating Scandal? Free Public College Is One RemedyLet's reroute the roughly $70 billion the federal government spends on college aid to the states, writes Rich Barlow.Mar 19, 2019
How A 1 Percent Fee On College Endowments Could Benefit All StudentsBy placing a public digital library at the heart of higher education in Massachusetts, writes Susan E. Gallagher, we can turn our state’s celebrated commitment to academic opportunity into a...Oct 18, 2018
The Case For Liberal ArtsMany students enter college unsure of what they want to be when they grow up, writes Rich Barlow. Liberal arts let them explore various fields and options. Jul 13, 2018
1 In 10 College Students In Mass. Are Homeless. More Are Hungry. It's Past Time We Recognize Their RealityHunger and homelessness prevent thousands of Massachusetts students from completing a college degree, write Sara Goldrick-Rab and Pam Eddinger.May 17, 2018
Lost In the News Over Mount Ida's Fate? The Faculty And StaffNews reports of Mount Ida’s closure have focused on the business ethics of the acquisition and the academic fate of students, writes Christopher John Stephens. What about the faculty and...Apr 19, 2018
For Low-Income Students, Public Colleges Are The Ivy League For Economic MobilityOur public universities and colleges are better at getting low-income students up the economic ladder than experts realized, writes Rich Barlow. But President Trump has no plan to support them.Mar 23, 2017
