
Eric Hoover
Senior Writer at The Chronicle of Higher Education
College access/admissions/inequality in education. Senior writer @chronicle. Baseball, underdogs, long narratives. [email protected]
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2 weeks ago |
chronicle.com | Eric Hoover
Attending college once provided a similar payoff for students regardless of their parents’ income, but that’s no longer the case, according to a new working paper published on Monday by the National Bureau of Economic Research. Since the 1960s, researchers found, college-going has become steadily “less valuable,” in terms of wage and employment benefits, for lower-income students, but increasingly valuable for wealthier ones.
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3 weeks ago |
chronicle.com | Eric Hoover
What’s NewThe number of financially independent students using the Common Application to apply to colleges more than doubled between 2016-17 and 2023-24, according to a new report released on Monday. The first-of-its-kind findings from the Common App shed light on the backgrounds, academic records, application patterns, and enrollment outcomes of so-called nontraditional students, who now represent a majority of all college students in the United States.
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2 months ago |
chronicle.com | Eric Hoover
Melanie Storey has left the U.S. Department of Education, but she will not be stepping away from the political fray in Washington. Storey, who served as director for policy implementation and oversight at the department’s Federal Student Aid (FSA) office for the last five years, will become the next president and chief executive of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, the organization announced on Tuesday.
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2 months ago |
chroni.cl | Eric Hoover
Melanie Storey has left the U.S. Department of Education, but she will not be stepping away from the political fray in Washington. Storey, who served as director for policy implementation and oversight at the department’s Federal Student Aid (FSA) office for the last five years, will become the next president and chief executive of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, the organization announced on Tuesday.
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Feb 16, 2025 |
chronicle.com | Eric Hoover
Late Friday night, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) put colleges on notice: stamp out all race-conscious policies and programming immediately or risk losing federal funding.
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