Drought Of STEM Graduates May Spell Doom For The American Economy

There are more job openings in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields than there are U.S. college grads with those skills.

Frederick Reese
By Frederick Reese

Higher education in the United States is in a state of crisis. On the obvious end of the conundrum is the student debt bubble -- which at over $1 trillion in outstanding student loans and with a 90-day delinquency rate of over 11 percent -- is showing signs of bursting any day. As reported by Reuters, JPMorgan Chase, in a move reminiscent of the

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Extremist Catholic Website Needs To Examine Its Own Tradition

A fringe organization’s insistence that Catholic women shouldn’t attend college runs not only against the realities of the modern world, but the Catholic tradition itself.

Carissa Wyant
By Carissa Wyant

A recent article entitled “6 Reasons (+2) to NOT Send Your Daughter to College,” by Raylan Alleman of an organization called Fix the Family, has generated quite a bit of discussion since it was posted on the group’s website last week. It’s filed under a “Feminist Lies” series the group is promoting. “Probably the most controversial and rejected

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College Tuition Hikes Deepen Inequality

Data show that while college may still technically be “worth it,” tuition hikes are making higher education inaccessible to many.

Martin Michaels
By Martin Michaels

The cost of a college education in the U.S. has skyrocketed 538 percent since 1985, according to a Bloomberg News report that used historical data from the U.S. Department of Labor. For millions of students, obtaining a four-year college degree has become a financial burden, forcing many to incur large debts to finance myriad educational expenses.

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Report: Half Of All Federal Student Loan Debt Is Not Being Repaid

Half of the outstanding $1 trillion in federal student loan debt is not in a stage of repayment.

Frederick Reese
By Frederick Reese

“I graduated with a bachelor’s degree in communication studies in 1998,” writes “Simon” from Sacramento, Calif., a long-term unemployed college graduate who shared his debt story with the Project on Student Debt at the Institute for College Access & Success. “My parents never went to a university, and I really had no idea about how student

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Cooper Union Students End Occupation With Tuition-Free Education Still In Jeopardy

After peacefully taking over the president’s office in May, Cooper Union students officially ended their occupation last week.

Mint Press News Desk
By Mint Press News Desk

Cooper Union, a college in New York city with a 154-year history of tuition-free education, has experienced more than two months of protests and sit-ins after President Jamshed Bharucha announced tuition would be charged for the coming academic year. After peacefully taking over the president’s office in May, Cooper Union students officially ended

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Tightened Student Loan Rules Deepen Troubles For Historically Black Colleges

Across the country, admission rates at the nation’s 105 historically Black colleges and universities are declining.

Frederick Reese
By Frederick Reese

Across the country, admission rates at the nation’s 105 historically Black colleges and universities are declining. For-profit schools, such as the University of Phoenix and Ashford University, are now a prominent source of baccalaureate degrees, with historically Black schools serving only 11 percent of the African-American student population.

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