Media Mentions
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.
November 30, 2021
Degrees Don’t Guarantee Outcomes, Clear Pathways Do
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.
November 30, 2021
Why Retired Subway Workers are Getting $35,000 to Come Back
This New York Times article by Winnie Hu quotes CEW Chief Economist Nicole Smith on barriers to entry for transit jobs.
November 29, 2021
So You Want a New Job? Here’s How to Retrain
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.
November 12, 2021
Would You Manage 70 Children and a 15-Ton Vehicle for $18 an Hour?
This article by Maggie Koerth in FiveThirtyEight quotes Chief CEW Economist Nicole Smith on the shifting middle class and its effects on gender.
November 12, 2021
Free College Campaigners Pledge to Fight on After Congress Defeat
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.
November 8, 2021
Politics Killed National Free Community College — For Now, But Advocates Vow to “Keep Going” as Momentum Continues in States
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.
November 8, 2021
College Costs Have Increased By 169% Since 1980 — But Pay for Young Workers is up by Just 10%: Georgetown Report Says
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.
November 1, 2021
US Misses Billions in Gains as Free Community College Gets Ax
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.
October 29, 2021
On College, Opportunity, and Merit
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.
October 29, 2021
The Week in COVID & Education Policy: When Can Schools Cancel Mask Mandates, Pediatricians Declare Mental Health Emergency & More
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.
October 18, 2021
Restoring America’s Democracy Through 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.
October 18, 2021
More Education Doesn’t Always Get You More Money, Report Finds
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.
October 18, 2021
More Education, More Earnings, But…
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.
October 18, 2021
When Graduating Isn’t Enough: New KIPP Scholarship Will Help First-Gen College Grads at Risk of Being “Underemployed”
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.
October 18, 2021
Do College Degrees Offer Best Financial Outcomes for All Students?
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.
