PITTSBURGH — Saisri Akondi had already started a company in her native India when she came to Carnegie Mellon University to get a master’s degree in biomedical engineering, business and design. Before she graduated, she had co-founded another: D.Sole, for which Akondi, who is 28, used the skills she’d learned to create a high-tech insole […] The post A largely invisible role of international students: Fueling the innovation economy appeared first on The Hechinger Report.| The Hechinger Report
ELYRIA, Ohio — Nolan Norman had no idea what microelectronic manufacturing entailed when his adviser at Midview High suggested he take the school’s new class on it last year. Yet once he started fusing metal to circuit boards, he says he was hooked. “When I was little, I thought that wizards made these things,” the […] The post Colleges struggle to make manufacturing training hot again appeared first on The Hechinger Report.| The Hechinger Report
Read in English. SAN ANTONIO — Ximena tenía un plan. La joven de 18 años de Houston iba a comenzar clases este otoño en la Universidad de Texas en Tyler, donde le habían concedido una beca de 10.000 dólares al año. Esperaba que eso le permitiera alcanzar su sueño: un doctorado en Química, seguido de […] The post Texas fue pionero en dar matrículas estatales para los inmigrantes indocumentados. Ahora está dando marcha atrás. appeared first on The Hechinger Report.| The Hechinger Report
After a three-year pause prompted by the pandemic, the clock on student loan repayments suddenly started ticking again in September 2023, and forbearance ended last September. For millions of borrowers like Shauntee Russell, the resumption of payments marked a harsh return to financial reality. Russell, a single mother of three from Chicago, had received $127,000 […] The post OPINION: The resumption of student loan payments means students will need new policies — and our help appear...| The Hechinger Report
MOREHEAD, Ky. — The summer after ninth grade, Zoey Griffith found herself in an unfamiliar setting: a dorm on the Morehead State University campus. There, she’d spend the months before her sophomore year taking classes in core subjects including math and biology and electives like oil painting. For Griffith, it was an opportunity, but a […] The post These federal programs help low-income students get to and through college. Trump wants to pull the funding appeared first on The Heching...| The Hechinger Report
Léelo en Español. SAN ANTONIO — Ximena had a plan. The 18-year-old from Houston was going to start college in the fall at the University of Texas at Tyler, where she had been awarded $10,000 a year in scholarships. That, she hoped, would set her up for her dream: a Ph.D. in chemistry, followed by a […] The post What’s happened since Texas killed in-state tuition for undocumented students appeared first on The Hechinger Report.| The Hechinger Report
Community colleges should be an avenue into high-value STEM degrees for students from low-income backgrounds, but just 2 percent of students who begin at a community college earn a STEM bachelor’s degree within six years. Here are ways to improve the process.| The Hechinger Report
There’s new momentum behind letting students cash in their life skills toward degrees, saving them time and money and helping colleges recruit new customers by giving what’s called credit for prior learning.| The Hechinger Report
An affordable bachelor’s degree remains the No. 1 lever for financial, professional and social mobility in America — and we need more college graduates. Yet supports for first-generation college students are eroding. This needs to change.| The Hechinger Report
High school apprenticeships are slowly spreading, as young people become more disillusioned with four-year college and well-paying jobs that don’t require bachelor’s degrees go begging.| The Hechinger Report
We want to know how the Trump administration is affecting higher education and life on your campus.| The Hechinger Report
At universities in California, Illinois, Louisiana and Texas, students report changes to campus clubs and activities, diminished research opportunities and fears for international students’ safety.| The Hechinger Report
Generative artificial intelligence technology is rapidly changing the labor market. In response, colleges are increasingly looking for ways to offer AI courses to their students to keep up with employer demands.| The Hechinger Report
The pay-it-forward approach to covering the cost of college stretches the return on financial aid and can help fill shortages of workers in critical industries.| The Hechinger Report
The Trump administration has undertaken draconian efforts to gut education research and dismantle public education, including our higher education system, often considered to be the world’s best. We need to defend education.| The Hechinger Report
El College Board modificó los criterios de concesión de becas del National Recognition Program, en una medida que podría desplazar decenas de miles de dólares de becas de estudiantes negros y latinos a estudiantes blancos.| The Hechinger Report
Is the four-year college degree losing its grip on Americans’ dreams? This story also appeared in GBH News Just as American colleges reach the demographic cliff — a steep decline in the number of 18-year-old prospective freshmen — higher education faces mounting pressure from all sides. President Donald Trump has targeted universities, slashing federal research […]| The Hechinger Report
The College Board changed its criteria for an awards program that could shift tens of thousands of scholarship dollars from Black and Latino students to white students.| The Hechinger Report