Philadelphia – A new report from the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education (Penn GSE) finds that higher education in Georgia is one of the least affordable in the country, and persistently gives the majority of its financial breaks to affluent families – with fewer...
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Thursday, June 25, 2020
Philadelphia — State lawmakers and public higher education officials are facing their toughest summer since the Great Recession.
Massive state budget shortfalls and lost revenue at colleges because of the Covid-19 pandemic are making for a scary budget season. Forty million Americans filed unemployment claims in May, and many will need retraining before their next job with a livable wage…
Thursday, October 25, 2018
Tuesday, April 18, 2017
Philadelphia, PA – In the early 2000s, alarmed by low graduation rates and an underprepared workforce, Tennessee’s political, educational, and business leaders launched a plan to boost educational attainment.
A new independent report from the...
Wednesday, December 14, 2016
PHILADELPHIA – A generation of strivers is being priced out of the most affordable rung of the higher education ladder, suggests a new report from the Institute for Research on Higher Education (IRHE) at...
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
PHILADELPHIA — California’s public system of higher education is rudderless, with a vortex of political, economic, and demographic forces threatening its ability to meet the state’s future economic and civic needs. With the world’s 12th-largest economy and 14 percent of all enrolled undergraduates in the nation,...
Thursday, February 27, 2014
PHILADELPHIA — Helping more people get a postsecondary education is a national challenge that many large states are failing to accomplish because these states have no plan for improvement, according to a new study from the...
Thursday, May 10, 2012
PHILADELPHIA — Georgia’s higher education policies are making it harder for black, Hispanic and poor Georgians to get a college education, according to a new report released by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute for Research on Higher Education.
Higher...
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
PHILADELPHIA — Texas will be forced to put the state’s economic growth at stake by closing the doors to college opportunity for thousands of young people, many of them Latino, unless leaders prioritize their goals for higher education and develop a plan to pay for them, according to a new report released by...
Friday, February 17, 2012
PHILADELPHIA — Maryland’s higher education system is leaving poor, black and Hispanic residents behind, according to a new study from the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute for Higher Education Research, “Much Accomplished, Much at Stake: Performance and Policy in Maryland Higher...
Sunday, January 8, 2012
PHILADELPHIA — Washington’s higher education system is adrift, failing to grant bachelor’s degrees to enough Washingtonians and forcing the state’s high-tech economy to rely on talent imported from other states and countries, according to the latest study from researchers at the...
Monday, November 7, 2011
PHILADELPHIA — Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education have found a decade-long decline of higher education opportunity and affordability in Illinois. They also found that...