Complete to Compete, a campaign to increase college completion rates and higher education productivity, will be the top priority for West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin III, the new chair of the National Governors Association, Time reports. “The economy demands more educated workers and Americans increasingly look to higher education as the path to economic success,” said [...]

Despite some definite improvement in the economy from last year, college graduates this year still face a very difficult job market. According to a study by outplacement firm Challenger Gray & Christmas, Inc., over half of the human resources executives polled said that their hiring outlook for graduates has not changed from a year ago. [...]

With concerns growing about the price of higher education, Maryland university leaders find themselves in the unusual position of encouraging students to take their initial classes not in the state system but at community colleges. Two years of community college followed by two years at a university is simply a cheaper formula — for the [...]

You have graduated from college. Congratulations! So, now what? “It’s a terrifying time to be graduating, when you think of how many people are in school and how few jobs there are,” said Jayna Punturiero, who is graduating from Loyola University in Chicago with master’s degrees in gender studies and social work this spring. “I [...]

Wake up and good morning. May is both the traditional month of college graduation, and articles that tell grads how tough it will be to find meaningful jobs. Looking at the round-up of assessments in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today and other national publications, the best that can be said is [...]

Ensuring that all students who graduate high school are “college and career ready” by 2020 is one of President Obama’s key education reform goals. But what does that mean? Is being ready for college right after high school the same thing as being ready to enter workforce training programs right out of high school? As [...]

When a student starts considering going to college, usually the next thing they think about is how to finance it. Yes, they have heard of, and most likely applied for, the Pell Grant. It cuts cost considerably, either for on campus or online degrees. At the same time, even though President Obama pushed through a [...]

This spring, more than 3 million students will graduate from America’s high schools, and more than 2 million of them will head off to college in the fall. At the top colleges, competition has been increasingly fierce, leaving many high school seniors licking their wounds and wondering what they did “wrong.” But do selective colleges [...]

Alysia Dahlke always mentions she is a fifth-year senior when she leads University of Wisconsin-La Crosse campus tours for prospective students and parents. She gets a laugh when she adds, “Five is the new four.” ”I’m not too upset,” Dahlke says of taking longer than the traditional four years in college, “because it’s kind of the [...]

As a college degree has become increasingly necessary in our global economy, career colleges have rapidly risen in popularity. Career colleges are run as businesses and their degree programs are substantially more expensive than the equivalent at community colleges. However, their course offerings appeal to students, with online classes, flexible scheduling, and accelerated programs. More…