The best math lesson we can teach college students this year is to subtract a tuition increase and benefit from the dividends of higher education.
Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools – intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it – this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.
If lenders are forced to scale back student lending because private student loans are subject to bankruptcy discharge, many students will be denied access to higher education.
We should be encouraging – not penalizing – folks who want to pursue higher education.
This is a universal human dream – that brains, not brawn, will rule – and the fact that America has the world’s finest institutions of higher education may be our greatest single national asset.
My grandfather was in the Indian Army, and my father started working to fund his own higher education and joined evening classes.
The mark of higher education isn’t the knowledge you accumulate in your head. It’s the skills you gain about how to learn.
While I’d been in school, I had a nagging thought that it’d be so much easier to quit all this higher education nonsense and get a full-time job at wages low enough to still qualify for government assistance.
Jeb Bush is the foremost authority on education reform in the Republican Party, and I will look to reform the ballooning costs of our higher education system along the lines that he has advocated.
Passing comprehensive immigration reform and making DACA and DAPA permanent will free people from living in the shadows of fear from deportation to be able to pursue higher education, buy homes, start businesses, and expand our economy and strengthen the communities of the 10th district and our nation.
An institution of higher education is a partnership among students and alumni, faculty and administrators, donors and trustees, neighborhoods and more, to build a community – and a culture.
Obviously, a lot of non-profits live on donations, and that’s a wonderful thing. But higher education can’t exist on donations only because, if that were the case, we would have a hard time paying teachers adequate salaries.
More and more job fields require some form of higher education, and the pressure is on for schools to adequately prepare our students to compete both nationally and globally and help drive economic growth.
There are millions of women who are trapped in lower-paying jobs and don’t have the skills for a higher-paying job, and don’t have the money or the time to access the higher education that they need for a better job.
Home to some of our nation’s civil rights leaders, Harvard Law is not a bigoted hub of racism but a place where men and women of all races peacefully co-exist in pursuit of higher education.
We must ensure our system of higher education offers world-class quality for a world-class economy.
Now the main areas of higher education that still enjoy considerable financial support from government are subjects like engineering and science and the research ringfence which is the basic minimum to protect Britain’s scientific competitiveness.
Education, particularly higher education, will take Africa into the mainstream of globalization.
I believe the American people are entitled to some straight talk when it comes to higher education funding.
There is still a lot of misinformation being spread about higher education funding arrangements under the new Act. The students page on my website sets out the main points in the Act.
Higher education is a cornerstone of our state’s future.
To finally reform higher education, we should start by asking fundamental questions, such as, Why does it take four years to get a degree?
The strength of the American higher education system is that it is a multifaceted, multi-layered system, and that is what makes us very strong.
Wishful thinking did not give Oregonians the bottle bill. Wishful thinking did not give the public access to beaches. Nor can we expect wishful thinking to turn around a decades-long disinvestment in our higher education system.
A greater tax deduction for students is not a handout. On the contrary, it helps those who are willing to meet the challenges of higher education to invest in our collective future.
As a first-generation college student, I know the hurdles that far too many people face in accessing quality, affordable higher education.
As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system.
In my home State of Louisiana, several institutions of higher education have been impacted by both Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, literally dozens across the entire State.
Democrats are fighting for a new direction that includes protecting Social Security as well as making healthcare affordable, bringing down the high cost of gasoline, and making higher education more accessible for all Americans.
American men do have genuine reasons for anxiety. The traditional jobs that many men have filled are disappearing, thanks to automation and outsourcing. The jobs that remain require, in most cases, higher education, which is increasingly difficult for non-affluent families to afford.
The NUS wants a serious debate on higher education funding.
Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.
It is no accident that the place that lends itself to creating conflicts between the dominant order of thought and people who want to speak their minds freely is the college campus, where conservatives feel outnumbered and crushed by a system of higher education that believes in academic freedom for me, not for thee.
In our post-9/11 world, our Nation’s military deserves, at least the same access to institutions of higher education that any other major employer might enjoy.
The rising costs of higher education coupled with the stress of paying student loans are putting increasing pressure on students.
One of the aims of higher education is to broaden perspectives, and what better way than by a home stay in a really different country, like Bangladesh or Senegal? Time abroad also leaves one more aware of the complex prism of suspicion through which the United States is often viewed.
We need to encourage innovative ideas that give parents better alternatives to prepare children for higher education and for the jobs of the future.
It’s a combination of targeting higher paying jobs in these growth areas and fostering closer cooperation with higher education; a rising tide that lifts all boats.
The best math lesson we can teach college students this year is to subtract a tuition increase and benefit from the dividends of higher education.
The Republicans have chosen to neglect young Americans who need assistance with the costs of higher education.
The lack of diversity in higher education is a problem we as a country must tackle if we’re going to live up to our promise.
For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.
We must ensure our system of higher education offers world-class quality for a world-class economy.
It is our duty as legislators to protect the success of our students as they pursue higher education.
There is no place in world where you can do higher education better than in the UK.
Poor people, people of color – especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
As the first member of my immediate family to graduate from college, making higher education more affordable and accessible is a top priority of mine.
Improving food security is critical in ensuring that higher education opportunities remain accessible for all.
Let’s stop telling people from modest backgrounds that their education is capped at a certain level because of where they grew up. In fact I can attest to the fact that all this attitude does is put people off wanting to test the waters and apply, or push themselves towards higher education at all.
We can do better in higher education. And it is more than just technology. It’s also an attitude on the part of faculty. We need to think through how we can produce a better quality product at less cost.
If lenders are forced to scale back student lending because private student loans are subject to bankruptcy discharge, many students will be denied access to higher education.
As a first-generation American, my parents expected that I would go on to have pretty tactical higher-education-type jobs – doctor, lawyer, engineer. Those were the three options. My dad was not at all open to the idea that there would not be a higher education in my future.
Trump University had neither a license nor a charter from New York State certifying it as an institution of higher education.
Lord knows there’s a lot of bad news in the world today to get you down, but there is one big thing happening that leaves me incredibly hopeful about the future, and that is the budding revolution in global online higher education.
Improving food security is critical in ensuring that higher education opportunities remain accessible for all.
