‘Send Your Kids to College Without Going Broke’ Facebook Chat Reaches Thousands
Thomas was adamant: "Stop with the PLUS loans."
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Colleges Urge More Black Students to Study the Environment
In Jamaica, where she was from, every student in her science classes was either Black or Brown, but in the U.S., when she started taking environmental courses in college, she was often the only student of color.
The College Transparency Act Would Help Students Make Informed Decisions
The hefty college dropout rate shows that there are serious problems in a system that forces students to make life-defining decisions blindly and disproportionately disadvantages students who are new to it. With CTA, students can access the information they need before they decide to take the higher education plunge.
More Black Men Need to Earn College Degrees
But what about black women? As it turns out, black women are earning more college degrees (as are women in general). But because fewer black men are earning degrees, the imbalance is affecting all kinds of things, like black marriage rates, economic inequality, and lower wealth attainment.
Build on Your College Success by Studying Abroad
"That is our focus," the Assistant Dean for Finance and Administration of Stony Brook's Global Affairs/International Academic Programs told me. "We want Pell-eligible and other students from challenging socioeconomic backgrounds to know that they can add another dimension—that of studying abroad—to their college-going experience."