Media Mentions

This NPR interview by Elissa Nadworny with CEW Director of Editorial and Education Policy Martin Van Der Werf discusses key findings from CEW’s new rankings of 4,500 colleges and universities…

This Higher Ed Dive article by Rick Seltzer highlights key findings from CEW’s new rankings of 4,500 colleges and universities by ROI, including the recommendation to provide students with comprehensive…

This University Business article by Chris Burt discusses CEW’s new rankings of 4,500 colleges and universities by ROI and quotes CEW Director Anthony Carnevale on why some colleges struggle to…

This CNBC article by Jessica Dickler references CEW’s new rankings of 4,500 colleges and universities by ROI to emphasize how going to college typically pays off in the long run.

This US News article by Lauren Camera discusses CEW’s new rankings of 4,500 colleges and universities by ROI, explaining how some high school graduates earn more than their college degree-holding…

This Inside Higher Ed article by Emma Whitford quotes both CEW Director Anthony Carnevale and Director of Editorial and Education Policy Martin Van Der Werf on the various factors influencing…

This Rutgers University article cites the CEW report “Colleges Where Low-Income Students Get The Highest ROI” to spotlight their top ranking in return on investment for lower income students.

This Higher Ed Dive article by Laura Spitalniak articulates key findings from the CEW report, “Colleges Where Low-income Students Get the Highest ROI,” namely that public colleges offer the best…

This University Business article by Matt Zalaznick utilizes the CEW report “Colleges Where Low-income Students Get the Highest ROI” to spotlight continuing inequities in higher education.

This article from the New York Institute of Technology by Bobbie Dell ‘Aquilo cites the CEW report “Colleges Where Low-income Students Get the Highest ROI” to highlight their own regional…

This NBC News article by Abigail Johnson Hess quotes CEW Chief Economist Nicole Smith on equity issues for student debt holders.

This CNBC article by Abigail Johnson Hess quotes CEW Chief Economist, Nicole Smith, on how student loan debt has morphed into an excessively restrictive force for many adults.

This Forbes article by Marybeth Gasman cites the CEW Report, “Colleges Where Low-income Students Get the Highest ROI,” to highlight the different available paths of higher education for students of…

This Times Higher Education article by Paul Basken articulates key findings from the CEW Report, “Colleges Where Low-income Students Get the Highest ROI.”

This Forbes article by Michael T. Nietzel pulls data from the CEW Report, “Colleges Where Low-income Students Get the Highest ROI,” to spotlight how top ROI’s for low-income students were…

This Axios article by Tina Reed pulls data from the CEW Report “Nursing” to explain the need for more nursing staff nationwide, and how the gig economy may have an…

This Inside Higher Ed article by Sara Weissman spotlights the CEW Report “Colleges Where Low-income Students Get the Highest ROI” to demonstrate how lower income students often experience a lower…

This Inside Higher Ed article by Sara Weissman uses the CEW Report, “Colleges Where Low-income Students Get the Highest ROI,” to bring attention to the fact that the median return…

This Higher Ed Dive article by Natalie Schwartz references the CEW Report, “Colleges Where Low-income Students Get the Highest ROI,” to highlight how public schools offer lower income students the…

Freelance education reporter Lilah Burke cites “College ROI” while writing for The Hechinger Report about the growing state requirements of higher education institutions for the disclosure of data on college…

This CNBC article from Abigail Johnson Hess takes insight from CEW Chief Economist Nicole Smith on how “occupational segregation” is one of the many factors that leads to the persistence…

This Inside Higher Ed article by Sara Weissman references CEW Report “The Cost of Economic and Racial Injustice” to discuss racial gaps in both wealth and education.

This Inside Higher Ed article by Carol Geary Schnieder cites CEW report “The Role of Education in Taming Authoritarian Attitudes” to explain the pressing need to extend service based learning…

This Inside Higher Ed article by Maria Carrasco solicits insight from CEW Director Anthony Carnevale as to what deters low-income students from going to college.

This Inside Higher Ed article by Steven Mintz examines central questions asked in the recent CEW report, “The Cost of Economic and Racial Injustice in Postsecondary Education.”

This MarketWatch article by Anna Helhoski quotes CEW Director Anthony Carnevale on how the “Great Resignation” might not exactly lead to a seamless “great retraining” for workers.

This Washington Post article by Jon Marcus references the CEW report “Three Educational Pathways to Good Jobs” to highlight the increased demand for post-secondary education for most jobs.

This article in the Hechinger Report by Michael Collins references a CEW report “African American Majors” to illuminate how Black students are often underrepresented in majors that lead to higher…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…