Higher Education Archives

Education

The 30 Top Thinkers Under 30: The High School Dropout Who Wants to Create Alternatives to Traditional Education

For the month of April we're profiling the individuals who made our inaugural list of the 30 top thinkers under 30, the young men and women we predict will have a serious impact on the social, political, and economic issues we cover every day here at Pacific Standard.

Avital Andrews

Education

Ironic Demographics: The Higher Education Bubble

Demographic decline is shrinking the pool of applicants for all but a handful of global superbrands, 80 percent of which are located in the United States.

Jim Russell

Economics

The Business of Higher Education: What We Miss by Looking Only at Balance Sheets

The generation of knowledge by professors. The transformative conversations that happen outside of the classroom. The advancements in our understanding of society. How can you put a value on any of these things?

Seth Masket

Social Justice

Should We Use Trigger Warnings on Course Syllabi?

Trigger warnings make sense in certain situations and settings. Higher education isn't one of them.

Tressie McMillan Cottom

Education

MOOCs Are Going to Make College Even More Expensive

Many massive open online courses serve as giant, viral marketing campaigns for universities looking to find even more potential students.

Jim Russell

Education

What Makes You So Smart, Jeremy Johnson?

Noah Davis talks to one of the co-founders of 2U about "disrupting" education, being really bad at things, and being really, really good at things.

Noah Davis

College fund, student loan debt, money in a jar

Education

It Is Possible to Graduate From a for-Profit College

For-profit higher education's failings have the feds exercised anew. If only there was some way to know who might thrive in these institutions....

Michael Todd

Education

How Do We Feel About Higher Education? Look to the Movies

They're just summer blockbusters, sure, but they present a rather dim view of the importance of the classroom.

Seth Masket

Education

Why MOOCs Are Bad for Science Education

Instead of overturning traditional education models, when it comes to science, MOOCs just reinforce them.

Michael White

Education

Stephen Joel Trachtenberg Pokes at the Foundations of the Ivory Tower

How about a three-year degree? Or a school year without summer vacation? Should we pay professors less? Are these heresy, or common sense ways to reform the university system in the United States?

John Greenya