Higher Education
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Across the nation, racial tensions are spilling onto quads and front pages as student protesters demand that their colleges do more to ensure students of all races and ethnicities feel welcome on campus
While many first-generation students are excited and ambitious when they step on campus others struggle with guilt, fear and loneliness, sometimes even struggling to remember why they decided to attend college in the first place
It’s been a year since Florida prohibited public colleges and universities from requiring students to take the tests that determine who needs remedial education courses
Higher education faces a major challenge: How to educate more students better as resources and funding at most colleges mostly stay flat
After nearly two years of public debate, and vociferous pushback from the higher education community, the White House announced it is pulling back on plans to rate the nation’s colleges based on a complex matrix of performance measures and student outcomes
Boston public radio reporter Kirk Carapezza (WGBH News) spent a week in Germany examining the country’s tuition-free higher education system
