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FAFSA Filings Are Off to a Slow Start. Can Colleges Reverse the Trend? News

FAFSA Filings Are Off to a Slow Start. Can Colleges Reverse the Trend?

Joy Resmovits writes for Education Dive about how fewer students have completed the FAFSA this…

Frank ZhangDecember 18, 2020

The Least for Those Who Need It Most News

The Least for Those Who Need It Most

David Leonhardt writes for the New York Times about how the funding gaps in higher…

Frank ZhangDecember 18, 2020

How Your College Choice Can Affect Job Prospects News

How Your College Choice Can Affect Job Prospects

In this US News & World Report article, Emma Kerr writes about how college choice…

Frank ZhangDecember 16, 2020

What Betsy DeVos Gets Wrong About Free College News

What Betsy DeVos Gets Wrong About Free College

In this Forbes article, Wesley Whistle writes about the recent CEW report, "The Dollars and…

Communications InternDecember 9, 2020

Labor Economist: How to Highlight In-Demand Skills on Your Resume News

Labor Economist: How to Highlight In-Demand Skills on Your Resume

Gili Malinsky writes for Grow about the top five competencies from CEW's latest report, "Workplace…

Communications InternDecember 9, 2020

How to Raise Rural Enrollment in Higher Education? Go Local News

How to Raise Rural Enrollment in Higher Education? Go Local

In this Hechinger Report article, Laura Pappano writes about the challenges that students in rural…

Communications InternDecember 4, 2020

New Approaches to Assessing Institutional Effectiveness News

New Approaches to Assessing Institutional Effectiveness

In this Inside Higher Ed article, Steven Mintz writes about research on the role of…

Communications InternDecember 3, 2020

The College Crusade of Rhode Island Aims to Save Students from the ‘Gap Trap’ News

The College Crusade of Rhode Island Aims to Save Students from the ‘Gap Trap’

Edward Fitzpatrick writes for the Boston Globe about the challenges that recent high school graduates…

Communications InternNovember 30, 2020

New Study: Jobs That Pay Well Require More Than Degrees News

New Study: Jobs That Pay Well Require More Than Degrees

In this column for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Maureen Downey writes about the recent CEW report,…

Communications InternNovember 27, 2020