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As National Default Rate Stays Low, Other Data Offers Warning

For the first time in four years, the national default rate ticked up slightly. One expert warns other data on nonrepayment is a “canary in the coal mine of what could be to come.”

How HSIs Can Move Forward After Federal Funding Cuts

Gina Ann Garcia, author of The HSI Movement, said Hispanic-serving institutions can thrive in the long term if leaders commit to serving Latino students, rather than just enrolling them.

4 Lessons on Lower-Income Student Success

College access is only part of the challenge for lower-income students. Here’s what recent research says about supporting them through graduation.

Colleges Want More Rural Students. This University Leader Traveled to Them.

The head of the University of Tennessee System visited 16 rural high schools over two weeks, trying to sell students on the value of a UT education—and fight the perception that a four-year degree isn’t right for rural students.

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Why Do We Keep Debating the M.L.S.?

Here’s why librarians can’t resolve our recurrent arguments about the import of the field’s professional degree.

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On Proper Objects of Study

A recent report on the humanities criticizes the distortion of scholarship in the service of political goals. Other disciplines would like a word.

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‘A Different World’ Reached No. 1. Why That Matters for HBCUs and Hollywood

Netflix reboot offers HBCUs a powerful recruitment opportunity and reminds the entertainment industry that Black stories attract enormous audiences.

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Featured Gig: Dartmouth Vice President and Chief Information Officer

Four questions for Erin DeSilva, senior associate provost for learning innovation.

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What My Students Said About a Phone and Laptop Ban

Students were mostly supportive of the policy, saying that banning electronic devices from the classroom improved their learning.

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Which Conflicts Matter?

Graduate students need more than communication skills. They need the discernment to know when to engage, when to listen and when to let something go.

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Apprenticeships: Learning at Work

Apprenticeships predate the modern university by centuries. But as concerns about both college costs and value mount, many higher ed institutions are looking to apprenticeships—all of which involve earning while learning—as affordable, efficient pathways for learners seeking reliable, well-paying careers in everything from nursing to cybersecurity. In the process, they’re reimagining the interplay between higher ed and the workforce and developing fresh ways to deliver experience and credentials of value. Inside Higher Ed’s multipart series, produced with support from Ascendium, explores the people, places and programs shaping the new era of apprenticeships.