Media Mentions
March 14, 2022
Asked to Discuss Her Whiteness
This Inside Higher Ed article by Colleen Flaherty quotes CEW Director of Research Jeff Strohl on lack of standardization for diversity, equity, and inclusion questions during the hiring process.
March 11, 2022
What We Value
This Inside Higher Ed article by Scott Jaschik quotes CEW Director Anthony Carnevale, as well as research from CEW report “The Role of Education in Taming Authoritarian Attitudes,” to explain the crucial role liberal arts education will play in helping us overcome our differences.
March 10, 2022
State of Higher Education Address 2022
Watch the Commissioner for Higher Education deliver the 2022 State of Higher Education Address, where CEW Director Anthony Carnevale is quoted.
March 10, 2022
Four Ways higher Education Has Changed After the Pandemic
This Boston Business Journal article by Grant Welker includes key analysis from CEW Director of Editorial and Education Policy Martin Van Der Werf as to how higher education has been influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic.
March 4, 2022
Could Crypto Kill College?
This Forbes article by Ryan Craig references CEW's new college ROI rankings to discuss how many prospective college students are turning toward crypto currency as a fast track to higher economic status.
March 2, 2022
Judging Institutions Based on Employment Outcomes
This Inside Higher Ed article by Suzanne Smalley cites the CEW report “The College Payoff” to explain differences in earnings across a variety of factors, including types of degree and school.
February 24, 2022
Balancing Hopes, Dreams, and a Low-Paying College Major
This Washington Post article by Anna Helhoski quotes CEW Chief Economist Nicole Smith on striking the right balance between what students are interested in studying and what majors pay well.
February 23, 2022
Georgia’s Lack of Need-Based Aid Is Legislative, Moral Failure
This Atlanta Journal Constitution article by Maureen Downey references CEW's 2022 college ROI rankings to emphasize both the soaring costs and growing demand for college.
February 23, 2022
Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day – A Call to Diversify
This Diverse Issues in Higher Education article by Liann Herder cites the CEW report “Mission Not Accomplished” to highlight racial and gender inequities still prevalent in the engineering field.
February 16, 2022
Georgetown Study Measures Colleges’ Return on Investment
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 by ROI.
February 15, 2022
A Decade After Enrolling, 60% of College Students Earn More Than High School Graduates
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 career counseling.
February 15, 2022
30% of Colleges Fail to Provide Strong ROI After 10 Years
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 provide students with a good return on investment.
February 15, 2022
Is College Really Worth It? Here’s Why It’s So Hard to Figure Out the Return on Investment
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.
February 15, 2022
When Students With High School Diplomas Earn More Than Those Who Enroll in College
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 counterparts.
February 15, 2022
When College Doesn’t Payoff
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 return on investment in higher education.
February 1, 2022
New York Tech Outcompetes All Long Island Universities for ROI Among Low-income Students
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 ranking.
January 28, 2022
CNBC Survey: 81% of Adults With Student Loans Say They’ve Had to Delay Key Life Milestones
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.
January 27, 2022
Want to Know How to Create Your Own College Experience?
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 varying income levels.
January 27, 2022
US Hispanics Rising Through Higher Education
This Times Higher Education article by Paul Basken articulates key findings from the CEW Report, “Colleges Where Low-income Students Get the Highest ROI.”
January 27, 2022
New Study Shows Which Colleges Help Low-income Students Get Ahead
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 achieved by some of the most elite and selective private colleges.
January 26, 2022
The Gig Economy is Trying to Solve Health Care’s Burnout Crisis
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 important role to play in achieving that.
January 25, 2022
Post College Earnings Depend on the College Attended
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 return on investment for their college education, with suggestions on how to prevent this.
January 25, 2022
Post College Earnings Depend on the College Attended
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 on investment for low-income students is lower than the average return on investment for all college students.
January 20, 2022
Survey of 563,000 Recent College Grads Finds Gender Pay Gap Already Impacting Class of 2020
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 of the gender pay gap.
January 19, 2022
A Decades-Long “National Crisis,” and a New Position
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.
January 10, 2022
All in? Or just some?
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 to all types of institutions of higher education.
January 7, 2022
Fewer High School Graduates Go Straight to College
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.
January 6, 2022
Rethinking the Performance Gap
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.”
December 20, 2021
Why College Majors Are Another Form of Implicit Bias in Higher Education
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 wages.
December 17, 2021
Free Community College is Dead — and Still Possible
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.
December 17, 2021
Making a College Degree Count: Beyond Good Grades
This Forbes article by Nancy Lee Sanchez quotes CEW Director Anthony Carnevale on the importance of diversifying skill-based workforce training programs.
December 6, 2021
A National Army of Career Counselors
This Inside Higher Ed article by Matt Reed analyzes comments from CEW Director Anthony Carnevale on the importance of career counselors in higher education.
December 6, 2021
The Big Shift in Biden’s Infrastructure Plan
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…
December 5, 2021
Professional Success Is Liberal Arts Colleges’ Best Kept Secret
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.
December 1, 2021
The Help Wanted Signs Are Up for Transit Workers
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.
December 1, 2021
Climb or Die
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.
