The national backlash against trans and nonbinary young people may have led fewer nonbinary students to disclose their gender identity in their applications to college for this fall. That is according to my analysis of how students who applied to college through the Common App identified their gender. The Common App is a good barometer […]

A majority of graduates from Oklahoma’s public universities and colleges stay and enter the state’s workforce, contributing to its economy. According to the 2023 Employment Outcomes Report from the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, 87% of graduates were working and living in Oklahoma one year after graduation. Five years after graduation, 75% still remained […]

A new report released by State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli highlights the higher education sector’s importance to New York’s local economies and to the state’s overall economic health. The state’s 290 degree-granting, postsecondary institutions employed over 296,000 people, paying wages of around $26.5 billion in 2023, but the sector still has over 13,000 fewer jobs since […]

Higher education advocates in Latino communities say they are optimistic about a new federal effort to support hundreds of local colleges and universities. Hispanic-serving institutions, or HSIs, which are not-for-profit schools with a full-time equivalent undergraduate student enrollment that is at least a quarter Hispanic, are vital to the goals of equality in educational and […]