Joanne Jacobs
Colleges add career coaches: Students say 'career success' is a priority
Colleges are adding career counselors and urging students to start career planning early, reports Hechinger's Jon Marcus. Some are...
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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
- 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
$1.7 trillion in college debt is 'mostly unrepayable'
Even if President Biden is able to figure some student loans, most of the $1.7 trillion in college debt will not be repaid -- ever, write...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 30
- 1 min
Biden can't cancel student loans, says court
President Biden can't cancel $430 billion in student loans, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled. Chief Justice John Roberts cited a 2021...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 26
- 2 min
Poor blacks get nothing from affirmative action
Affirmative action in college admissions has failed to help disadvantaged black students, writes Bertrand Cooper in The Atlantic. If the...
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 19
- 2 min
Debtors will have to repay student loans: 'We won't be able to afford a new house'
More than three years after student loan payments were paused and interest rates were cut to zero, borrowers will have to resume payments...
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
- 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
- Nov 21, 2022
- 1 min
College apps are up again, and crunch season is just starting
College applications appear to be up this fall after a pandemic dip, according to the Common Application's report on early applicants....
Joanne Jacobs
- Oct 30, 2022
- 1 min
Serve your country to clear your student loans
Link college loans to civilian or military service, writes Steve Cohen in City Journal. "President Biden’s plan to 'forgive' student...
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
- Sep 30, 2022
- 3 min
Drop college mandates for jobs before the next $400 billion bailout
Forgiving student loans -- if it survives a legal challenge -- is estimated to cost $400 billion to $500 billion or more. That means...
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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