Media Mentions
April 12, 2016
6 Excuses for the Gender Pay Gap You Can Stop Using
In this Time Money Magazine article, Alicia Adamczyk talks about gender wage gap on the Equal Pay Day and cites our report.
April 7, 2016
Career Coaching for the Playdate Generation
In this New York Times article, Laura Pappano quotes Anthony Carnevale on career coaching for the playdate generation that “they face an entirely different reality than their parents did."
April 7, 2016
Why It Matters Where You Go to College as a STEM Major
In this Time Money Magazine article, Kerry Close argues that the school you choose can be as important as what you study, even for STEM majors. She also quotes Anthony Carnevale that “where you go matters a lot less than people think… it does matter.”
April 6, 2016
Career Success—Is It All About the Money?
In this Huffington Post article, Alan Kadish talks about how should we measure career success. He quotes a recent report by CEW that shows career success based on earnings potential.
April 5, 2016
Will You Sprint, Stroll or Stumble Into a Career?
In this New York Times article, Jeffrey J.Selingo writes about the huge run-up in the number of undergraduate and graduate students that has led to further delays in passing the milestones of adulthood.
April 3, 2016
Colleges Drill Down on Job-Listing Terms
In this Wall Street Journal article, Anna Louie Sussman and Melissa Korn write about the gap between labor-markets and schools in the US. They quote Anthony Carnevale that “job change is higher here than in any other country in the world.”
March 31, 2016
New Digital Credentials Will Bring Good Fortune
In this Forbes article, Ryan Craig writes about new digital credentials and quotes Tony Carnevale who describes the current market as “chaos.”
March 28, 2016
Skip college? It can pay off—big time
In this CNBC news, Jessica Dickler quotes Nicole Smith that, "There are very many post-secondary vocational certificates, particularly those that are technological in nature, that add significant labor market value."
March 23, 2016
What’s the Last Thing You Learned – and When?
In this Huffington Post article, Jeff Ray quotes CEW that there will be 3 million jobs open in 2018 that employers won’t be able to fill.
March 23, 2016
How to Graduate More Black Students
In The Atlantic article, Emily DeRuy says many more black students are graduating from college than a decade ago. She also quotes Anthony Carnevale saying, “We still have separate but unequal education among the races.”
March 23, 2016
Apprenticeships making a comeback
In this USA Today article, Paul Davidson quotes Anthony Carnevale on how best to learn a specific skill.
March 10, 2016
How Perceptions About Opportunity Vary by Race
In this The Atlantic article, Emily DeRuy talks about black and white Americans' dramatically different views on whether all children have equal access to the same opportunities.
March 4, 2016
Noncompletion Success in California
In this Inside Higher Ed article, Ashley A. Smith quotes Jeff Strohl that "state after state has been focusing on understanding subbaccalaureate education, but very few, if any, have jumped into evaluating the population of noncompleters in this way."
March 3, 2016
Why Do Colleges Charge The Same For All Degrees?
In this Forbes article, Ryan Craig quotes Anthony Carnevale and Nicole Smith on STEM degrees. He goes on to report that STEM bachelors degrees have consistently outperformed non-STEM degrees by 10-30% in terms of mean income for adults ages 21-54 for nearly 50 years.
February 29, 2016
Building the Higher Education Transfer Pipeline
In this Huffington Post article, Dr. Brian C. Mitchell quotes Anthony Carnevale and mentions that by 2018, the United States will need 22 million new college degrees--but will fall short of that number by at least 3 million postsecondary degrees.
February 25, 2016
HBCUs: an Unheralded Role in STEM Majors and a Model for Other Colleges
In this Chronicle of Higher Education article, Ken Leichter mentions that African American students are underrepresented in the college majors that tend to lead to higher-income occupations and overrepresented in majors that tend to lead to lower salaries.
February 22, 2016
Egg Drop at Discovery Cube
In this FOX 11 news story, Michelle Pulfrey writes about how American students are falling behind other countries in science, technology, engineering, and math education.
February 22, 2016
The Debate Over Cutting Liberal Arts Funding in Favor of STEM
This US News article quotes Anthony Carnevale about how liberal arts majors should be better informed about their chances of getting employment and the potential salary levels with their degree.
February 21, 2016
A Rising Call to Promote STEM Education and Cut Liberal Arts Funding
In this New York Times article, Patricia Cohen quotes Anthony Carnevale saying, “there’s a deeper question of what public money should be used for.”
February 19, 2016
These maps show the Americans hit hardest by student-loan crunch
In this Market Watch article, Jillian Berman talks about higher student loan delinquency rates in African-American or Latino-dominated neighborhoods.
February 18, 2016
Black College Students Major In Fields That Offer Lower Economic Payoffs, Study Finds
In this WGBH article, Kirk Carapezza mentions that black students disproportionately major in teaching and caring professions that benefit society but don't have a high financial payoff.
February 17, 2016
Middle-class minorities are most at risk of falling behind on student loans, report says
In this Washington Post article, Danielle Douglas-Gabriel writes about how middle-class African Americans and Hispanics are disproportionately falling behind on student loan payments.
February 10, 2016
On the Hill today: Implementing ESSA
In this Politico article, Caitlin Emma talks about low-paying majors, mentioning that African Americans are overrepresented in majors that lead to low-paying jobs.
February 10, 2016
A Black College Student Advising Gap?
In this The Atlantic article, Emily Deruy mentions that black students are far more likely to pursue low-paying rather than high-paying college majors.
February 9, 2016
African-Americans over-represented among low-paying college majors
In this PBS News article, Kenya Downs mentions that African-American college students are more likely to pursue majors that lead to low-paying jobs.
February 9, 2016
Report: Black Students Underrepresented in High-Paying STEM Majors
In this US News article, Natalie Escobar says African Americans have more access to a college education than ever, but they are underrepresented in major fields like STEM that are correlated with higher earnings.
February 9, 2016
Black Students Underrepresented in High-Earning College Majors
In this NBC News article, Maya Chung writes about how while there has been an increase in college access among African Americans, they are still highly concentrated in low-paying majors.
February 9, 2016
African-Americans are Overrepresented in Lower-Paying College Majors
In this Wall Street Journal article, Anna Louie Sussman writes about the importance college majors play in earnings, especially among African American students.
February 9, 2016
Black Students Choosing Low-paying Majors
In this Diverse Issues In Higher Education article, Jamaal Abdul-Alim writes about how African American students tend to choose low-earning college majors. He also quotes Anthony Carnevale in the article.
February 9, 2016
College Degrees Aren’t Serving Women and Minorities
In this Fortune article, Michal Addady says that a college degree is a more lucrative investment for a white man than women or minorities.
February 9, 2016
Black Students Are Overrepresented in Low-Paying Majors, Study Finds
In this Chronicle of Higher Education article, Courtney Kueppers writes about how African-American students are more concentrated at institutions that offer a more limited selection of majors.
February 9, 2016
Report Finds Black Students in Nonlucrative Majors
This Inside Higher ED article discusses how black students enroll disproportionately in majors that are not the most lucrative.
February 9, 2016
Report: Few Black College Students Major in High-Paying Fields
In this Bloomberg Business article, Sarah Grant writes about how colleges should work harder to emphasize the earning power of certain degrees over others.
February 1, 2016
The Reality of Coding Classes
In this The Atlantic article, Mikhail Zinshteyn says that half a million new jobs over the next decade will require computer-science know-how.
January 29, 2016
How recent college graduates are faring — in 3 charts
In this Market Watch article, Jillian Berman writes about how it's been tough for college graduates to find jobs since the Great Recession and recovery, but now it appears things may be looking up for this group as the economy recovers.
January 29, 2016
Studying marketing? You might actually make more than some scientists one day, Fed says.
In this Washington Post article, Danielle Douglas-Gabriel says that getting an advanced degree will improve educators’ prospects, but won’t do much to narrow the wage gap with engineers.
January 27, 2016
Colleges With at Least 25 Percent Latinos Have Doubled
In this National Journal article, Emily DeRuy says according to our report, 65 percent of jobs in 2020 will require a postsecondary education, to achieve that goal, the U.S. will need to dramatically increase college attendance among Latinos.
January 26, 2016
Should more kids skip college for workforce training?
In this PBS Newshour broadcast, correspondent John Tulenko interviews Anthony Carnevale on the importance of a high school degree.
January 25, 2016
The Average Salary of a College Degree vs. Skilled Labor
In this Globalpost article, Nathan Cranford says despite the wage variability college graduates experience during tough economic times, the probability that they will earn much higher wages over time is still greater than those who do not hold a college degree.
January 21, 2016
Georgetown Portal Links Higher Ed to Workforce Needs
In this Campus Technology's article, Rhea Kelly introduces CEW's State Initiative portal that houses state-level research linking higher education to labor market demands.
January 15, 2016
The five most and least stressful jobs
This Yahoo Finance's article quotes Nicole Smith on the five most and least stressful jobs.