Media Mentions

This Yahoo Finance article by Colin Beresford highlights the CEW report “The Dollars and Sense of Free College” to emphasize how tuition-free community college ultimately would have paid for itself.

This Forbes article by Nancy Lee Sanchez quotes CEW Director Anthony Carnevale on the importance of diversifying skill-based workforce training programs.

This Diverse Issues in Higher Ed article by Liann Herder quotes CEW Director Anthony Carnevale on the unique circumstances facing students who choose to take a gap year.

This Inside Higher Ed article by Matt Reed analyzes comments from CEW Director Anthony Carnevale on the importance of career counselors in higher education.

This NPR article by Elissa Nadworny references a CEW analysis to highlight the economic gains that are to be lost from the removal of tuition free community college from the upcoming reconciliation legislation, in the form of a yearly $170 billion boost to GDP.

This CNN Politics article by Ronald Brownstein analyzes the CEW report “Infrastructure,” in addition to commentary from Chief CEW Economist Nicole Smith, to highlight the differences between the Bipartisan Infrastructure Legislation and the Build Back Better Reconciliation Bill, mainly in that the former primarily creates jobs in male dominated fields, whereas the latter more so supports women and minority dominated positions.  

This Times Higher Education article by Jeffrey Nesteruk and Barbara Altmann highlights key findings from the CEW report “ROI of Liberal Arts Colleges” namely that liberal arts colleges often deliver a high ROI for students.

This New York Times article by James Barron quotes CEW Chief Economist Nicole Smith on how license or test-based certification requirements for transit agencies limit the pool of qualified applicants.

This Inside Higher Ed article by Matt Reed examines advice from CEW Director Anthony Carnevale on what non-elite four-year colleges should do to prepare for the future.

This University Business article by Amrit Ahluwalia emphasizes key findings from the CEW report “The College Payoff,” as well as commentary from CEW Senior Economist and Research Professor Ban Cheah, to highlight the importance of higher education institutions making job outcomes clear for students.

This New York Times article by Winnie Hu quotes CEW Chief Economist Nicole Smith on barriers to entry for transit jobs. 

This ABC News article by Anna Helhoski quotes CEW Director Anthony Carnevale on the importance of retraining workers seeking new careers, particularly due to increased skill requirements driven by advancements in technology.

This article by Maggie Koerth in FiveThirtyEight quotes Chief CEW Economist Nicole Smith on the shifting middle class and its effects on gender.

This article by Paul Basken in Times Higher Education quotes CEW Director Anthony Carnevale on the economic loss to be incurred from tuition free community college be axed from the upcoming spending bill. 

This MarketWatch article by Jillian Berman references CEW report “The Dollar and Sense of Free College,” in addition to quoting CEW Director Anthony Carnevale, in order to illustrate the importance of carrying on the fight for tuition-free community college.

This article from Chronicle of Higher Education by Eric Kelderman explains CEW report “The Dollars and Sense of Free College” to reveal the economic cost to be incurred should free college not be implemented nationwide.

This CNBC article by Abigail Johnson Hess articulates a key finding of the CEW report, “If Not Now, When?” in that the gap between how much young workers make and how much they must pay to go to college has only grown larger over the past several years.

This Hechinger Report article by Jon Marcus cites CEW report “Upskilling and Downsizing in American Manufacturing” to emphasize the growing demand for postsecondary education in manufacturing jobs.

This University Business article by Matt Zalaznick references CEW report “If Not Now, When?” in addition to quoting CEW Director Anthony Carnevale in order to highlight the pressing need to bridge educational gaps as early as possible, starting in preschool.

This article by Jarrell Dillard in Bloomberg references CEW analysis and quotes CEW Director Anthony Carnevale to emphasize how much the US economy will miss out on as a result of tuition free community college being removed from the upcoming spending bill.

This article by M.J. Anderson in the Boston Globe quotes CEW Director Anthony Carnevale and analyzes CEW Report “The Merit Myth” to illustrate how institutions of higher education often foster a self-perpetuating elite, despite the fact that they are intended to be tools to upward economic mobility.

This article from The 74 references data from CEW report “If Not Now, When?” to map out all the pressing issues to the world of education.

This article from Ed Surge by Stephen J Handle and Eileen L Strample uses the CEW report “The College Payoff” to compare median lifetime earnings for bachelor’s degree holders vs non bachelor’s degree holders, highlighting college education as a crucial tool in an individual’s trajectory to the middle class.

This article from CNBC by Jessica Dickler quotes CEW Director Anthony Carnevale and references CEW report “The College Payoff” to emphasize that while more education does not always mean more money, the safest strategy is to stay in school.

This article from Community College Daily by Matthew Dembicki unpacks CEW report “The College Payoff” to reveal that while more education generally means more earnings, other important factors such as field of study and occupation come into play.

This article from The 74 by Richard Whitemire cites the CEW report “The Unequal Race to Good Jobs” to highlight how Black and Latino students are not as likely to obtain good jobs as equally educated White workers.

Check out this article from International Higher Education written by the CEW Director Anthony Carnevale, examining educational disparities that have only been heightened by the coronavirus pandemic.

This article from University Business by Chris Burt references the CEW report “The College Payoff” to emphasize that beyond level of education, race, gender, and field of studies can have significant power in determining future wealth.

This article from MarketWatch by Howard Gold notes how drug overdoses and death rates are lower for bachelor’s degree holders as opposed to those without a college degree.

This Higher Ed Dive article by Natalie Schwartz references the CEW Report “The College Payoff” to highlight how workers with bachelor’s degrees have significantly higher median lifetime earnings than workers with just a high school diploma.

This NPR article by Elissa Nadworny quotes CEW Director Anthony Carnevale about how going to college isn’t always the best advice for every high school student.

This article from Ed Source by David Wakelyn uses the CEW Report “Recovery” to emphasize just how important a college education is to obtaining a job in California’s economy.

This article from Inside Higher Ed by Sara Weissman examines the key finding from the CEW Report “The College Payoff,” being that bachelor’s degree holders tend to earn more than workers without one.

This Yahoo News article by Josh Moody references the Georgetown CEW report “The College Payoff” to compare median lifetime earnings across education levels.

This article by Chris Burt from University Business announces CEW Director Anthony Carnevale as a signatory of the Civic Learning and Democracy Engagement Coalition, a group aimed at promoting dialogue among postsecondary students to help solve issues critical to the nation’s success.

This article from International Business Times by Ben Scheffer quotes CEW Director Anthony Carnevale on President Biden’s plans to implement tuition free community college and universal Pre-K.

This article by Ruth Bauer White from the Hechinger Report cites the Georgetown CEW report “Balancing Work and Learning” to emphasize the hardships some students face in working a job while trying to earn their degree.

This University Business article by Matt Zalaznick cites CEW report “Dividend Recovery” to emphasize just how important a college degree has become in obtaining a job in the modern era.

This CNBC article by Abigail Johnson Hess outlines the graduate degrees that provide the highest increases in earnings, while quoting CEW Director Anthony Carnevale on equity issues in obtaining such advanced degrees.

This Washington Post article by Heather Long references the CEW report “The Economic Value of College Majors” to highlight that early childhood education majors are among the lowest earners.