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How can we ensure equal access to a high-quality postsecondary education? Public higher education, despite its purported commitment to democratic access, is becoming more and more inequitable. It consists, increasingly, of the have and have-not institutions.
The Supreme Court decision on affirmative action is yet another reminder that emulating Harvard is—and always has been—a fool’s errand, John R. Thelin and Richard W. Trollinger write. The June 29 Supreme Court decision striking down affirmative action may not have been good news for Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It did, however, provide a wake-up call to higher education leaders that they could not afford to rely primarily on the examples set by a small circle of academically prestigious colleges and universities. In other words, selective admiss...
Amazon Web Services says its big spending on free training is driven by an enormous and growing IT skills gap.
New research says they correlate with family wealth -- even more than the SAT. What should colleges do?