Joanne Jacobs
'Dual credits' aren't very helpful, but that can be fixed
Dual-credit programs are supposed to put students "on the fast track" to an affordable college degree, but many teens are earning credits...
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Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 12
- 1 min
Arkansas students can qualify for 'free' bachelor's degree
The University of Central Arkansas will offer a tuition-free bachelor's degree to in-state students from families earning less than...
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 12
- 2 min
To control college costs: Work harder, dump gen-ed, fire DEI staff
College costs keep rising, even as more young people question a degree's value. The James Martin Center for Academic Renewal asked for...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 11
- 2 min
College is a gamble: Will you graduate? In what major? Owing how much?
Americans have soured on the value of a college education, writes Paul Tough in the New York Times Magazine. Ten years ago, 86 percent of...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 20
- 2 min
Apprenticeship-to-degree model launches debt-free careers
How do you get a job at Goldman Sachs? In the U.S., it usually takes a degree from an elite college to get in the door. In Britain,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 3
- 2 min
How to fix higher ed: Make public college free
"Higher education is deeply screwed up," writes William Deresiewicz on Persuasion. The first step to fixing it, he argues, would be to...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 20
- 2 min
Class of '23 has high hopes -- $84,855 -- for post-college pay
Gen Z college students are clueless about the workforce, according to a survey conducted in March, writes Jaime Dunaway-Seale for Real...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 19
- 1 min
Who do you trust? Not higher ed or public schools -- or Congress
Americans' confidence in higher education has fallen sharply, according to a new Gallup poll, reports Hechinger's Jill Barshay. Yet most...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 19
- 2 min
$1.78 trillion in college debt: Can US derail the debt train?
Student loan debt now totals $1.78 trillion, reports Motley Fool. That number has doubled in the last 10 years. The average debtor owes...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 8
- 1 min
Should I go to college? Class of '23 worries about costs, feels less prepared
The Class of '23 missed the last part of ninth grade, and many missed chunks of 10th and 11th grade as well. Forty-two percent say...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 22
- 2 min
Higher ed's future: Microcredentials?
Microcredentials, which certify completion of short-term training in marketable skills, are the "new new thing in higher education,"...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 22
- 1 min
Dead wood in the groves of academe
The U.S. has led the world in higher education but our "university system is beginning to molder," writes Adrian Wooldridge in Bloomberg....
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 19
- 1 min
Florida Atlantic wins upward mobility tournament
Florida Atlantic University beat Memphis in the closing seconds of the first game of the NCAA tournament, and play Farleigh Dickinson...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 24
- 1 min
Apprenticeships on the rise
BMW’s Rising Scholars program lets 12th-graders launch a pre-apprenticeship in advanced manufacturing, including paid work and training,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 18
- 2 min
Under Biden's new plan, most college borrowers won't repay loans
Don't save for college. Don't choose a cheaper alternative. Unless you become a very higher earner very quickly, you'll make only...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 12
- 1 min
San Diego legislator proposes in-state tuition for Tijuana residents
Tijuana, Mexico residents would pay in-state tuition at San Diego community colleges under a bill proposed by Assemblyman David Alvarado,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Dec 24, 2022
- 2 min
Emily the art student, debtor and criminal
Emily owes $60,000 for an art degree she never finished. Her payments, from her job delivering food, reduce the interest but aren't...
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 30, 2022
- 2 min
Colleges can cut costs by getting back to basics
If colleges and universities got back to basics -- teaching and worthwhile research -- they could serve students without saddling them...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 25, 2022
- 2 min
Blue-collar workers don't want to pay college loans: 'Hell no!'
Linking student loan forgiveness to jobs and skills training would have been politically savvy, writes Andrew J. Rotherham on Eduwonk....
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 24, 2022
- 2 min
Biden: $10,000 break on college loans
President Joe Biden will cancel $10,000 in student loans for those earning less than $125,000 a year and extend "the pandemic-era pause...
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