by studentrg | Mar 29, 2022 | Career Pathways & 21st Century Skills, College Admissions, Paying for College
Findings from the New Inside Higher Ed Survey “My older son, who is graduating from an elite college this year, was most looking for high status in the colleges he put on his list five years ago. Now our daughter, who is just as accomplished academically, is thinking...
by studentrg | Dec 28, 2021 | College Admissions, College Degrees, Student Research Foundation Research
USA Facts is an organization that compiles statistics about dozens of areas of American life: employment, the pandemic, climate change, and more. For educators, a visit to the USA Facts page of statistics on American education is a real eye-opener, full of surprises...
by studentrg | Dec 31, 2020 | College Admissions, Education, Paying for College
“What this means is that the American Dream for many low-income students has been deferred, perhaps permanently. Young people not born to well-off families will not surpass their parents in income and home ownership, they will not surge into promising careers, and...
by studentrg | Dec 7, 2020 | Career Pathways, College Admissions, Student Research Foundation Research
As you have noticed, American higher education has just gone through a period of cataclysmic change. Can you think of another four-year period when colleges have removed the names of their slave-holding founders from buildings, and when students have been expected to...
by studentrg | Sep 21, 2020 | Paying for College
Have you seen stories online and on the evening news about students who are dropping out of college already this year? It’s happening to unfortunate students. For example, we just read a story about a young woman who dropped out of her community college because she...