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Colleges provide economic and social benefits for their surrounding communities.

China’s job hunters say there are fewer decent jobs and more applicants, whether they’re seeking manual work or office positions.

When enrollment declined during the pandemic, two-year institutions boosted support for continuing students.

“You could teach the entire history of American architectural style just using dormitories,” says Carla Yanni of Rutgers University.

At 5.3%, the unemployment rate for young university graduates is at its highest in around three years, said New York Fed economist Richard Deitz.

For-profit colleges sell a promise of success to marginalized groups, but often haven’t delivered. Now, they may have to pay for it.

During the pandemic, many colleges cut costs by taking their magazines entirely online. Since then, there’s been a big shift back to print. 

Divestment might not move the needle on government or corporate policy, but it could shift “hearts and minds,” says Alison Taylor of NYU.

Free tuition programs in two New England states have brought thousands of new students into community college classrooms. But they’re also straining some schools’ faculty and financial aid staff.

Now 60, she learned that her decades-old GPA disqualifies her from receiving federal loans or grants.