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What Does Fair Look Like at America’s Elite Public Schools? News

What Does Fair Look Like at America’s Elite Public Schools?

This article from The Christian Science Monitor quotes CEW Director Anthony Carnevale on the racial…

Connor BrandiJune 24, 2021

Enrolling More Students at Prestigious Colleges Is a Losing Strategy News

Enrolling More Students at Prestigious Colleges Is a Losing Strategy

This article from the Chronicle of Higher Education by Bob Masa and Bill Conley references…

Connor BrandiJune 22, 2021

The 100 Community Colleges With the Most Bang for Your Buck News

The 100 Community Colleges With the Most Bang for Your Buck

A Newsweek article by Karen Johanson uses data from the CEW report “A First Try…

Connor BrandiJune 22, 2021

Redefining Infrastructure Would be a Boon to Women, Lower-Income, and Minority Workers. News

Redefining Infrastructure Would be a Boon to Women, Lower-Income, and Minority Workers.

In an article for NBC News, Martha White quotes CEW Chief Economist Nicole Smith’s more…

Connor BrandiJune 22, 2021

The Best Private Colleges in Every State With the Most Bang for Your Buck. News

The Best Private Colleges in Every State With the Most Bang for Your Buck.

In an article for Newsweek, Meagan Drillinger references the CEW report “A First Try at…

Connor BrandiJune 22, 2021

Engineering Has a Diversity Problem. Colleges Can Help. News

Engineering Has a Diversity Problem. Colleges Can Help.

In this Chronicle of Higher Education newsletter, Vimal Patel discusses the findings of the latest…

CEW GeorgetownJune 15, 2021

Black Women Owe 22% More Debt Than White Women, on Average News

Black Women Owe 22% More Debt Than White Women, on Average

In this CNBC article, AJ Hess references the CEW report “Women Can't Win” and quotes…

CEW GeorgetownJune 14, 2021

An Economist Explains How to Make College Pay News

An Economist Explains How to Make College Pay

Rick Hess cites the CEW report “The Economic Value of College Majors” in an interview…

CEW GeorgetownJune 10, 2021

Without Change, Engineering Equality May Take 76 Years or More News

Without Change, Engineering Equality May Take 76 Years or More

Chris Burt writes for University Business about the latest CEW report, "Mission Not Accomplished."

Communications InternJune 9, 2021