Leadership

Education

Most of this year’s top higher ed stories revolved around the coronavirus pandemic’s impact on fundamental aspects of higher education.

Taking a break to connect with the natural world – "greening the brain" – is restorative because we give the systems we use to concentrate a chance to rest.

While some programs attempt to simplify their curricula to attract disadvantaged students, BEAM’s experience showcases the exact opposite approach: challenging the students with complex, engaging, open-ended problems helps them develop confident mindsets and, ultimately, succeed in their careers.

The controversy over Dr. Jill Biden's degree: mansplaining? anti-higher education? or just plain gender bias? A look at the issues and future challenges for graduate education.

Immediate action on education from the Biden Administration is crucial to the country's recovery and long-term prosperity.

Charley Pride thought Americans were excessively race conscious. Huge spending on affirmative action at the University of Michigan and Ohio State provides support for his position.

It's time for tuition freezes and cost reductions to become a goal for all colleges and universities. Doing so will usher in a dynamic new era for American higher education.

Learners today are diverse, with a wide range of prior experiences, current obligations and constraints, and future goals. Our nation’s higher education system needs to better reflect the learners who are accessing our programs and institutions.

With a teacher in tow and our pod of families set, the next set of questions we tackled revolved around what the learning environment would look like and the curricular materials for our homeschool microschool. We moved away from our ideal—and made several mistakes along the way.

Final fall college enrollment figures are in, and they show that overall postsecondary enrollments declined 2.5% in fall 2020, nearly twice the rate of decline reported in fall 2019.