As many as 53 percent of people under the age of 25 with bachelor’s degrees are unemployed or underemployed — and they’re taking jobs traditionally occupied by high school graduates.
Indiana’s public university presidents are at the statehouse this week making their appeals for increased funding. From Indiana Public Broadcasting‘s Brandon Smith: A common theme among the university presidents Wednesday was proving to lawmakers that their school is working to reduce the cost of college for its students. Acting Purdue President Tim Sands says one [...]
College graduates and those age 25 to 54 are the most likely to hold full-time jobs, according to the latest Gallup poll.
Workers with less education lost about four out of five jobs in the recession — and nearly all of the jobs added in the recovery are going to college graduates. That’s the latest from the Lumina Foundation and Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce. The report, released last week, contradicts claims that the recession has [...]
It won’t make students go to class or study for finals, but it will ensure Indiana State University students have the resources they need to graduate on time. It’s called the Sycamore Graduation Guarantee – and it’s a promise to students that if they need more than four years to complete their degree, then ISU [...]
Since the passage of No Child Left Behind, standardized tests have measured the quality of education in K-12 schools. Could it soon be a reality in the nation’s colleges too?
President Obama delivered a shot heard ’round the higher education world during his State of the Union address Tuesday. “Let me put colleges and universities on notice,” the President told Congress. “If you can’t stop tuition from going up, the funding you get from taxpayers will go down.” To carry out this vision, we learned [...]
This is a guest post from Molly Bloom, a reporter for our sister site, StateImpact Ohio. The post originally appeared here. Education came second only to Jobs, Jobs, Jobs! in President Barack Obama’s 2012 State of the Union remarks Tuesday night. Making college less expensive for students continues to be a key talking point for the Obama administration. In the State of the [...]
If Indiana’s public universities are engines of the state’s economy, the fuel doesn’t always stay here. One in three graduates from Indiana’s public colleges left the state — and the ones with the most advanced degrees were the most likely to leave — according to a study from Indiana University and the Indiana Workforce Intelligence [...]
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