Dec 11, 2020 | Article, Preparing
While many of you were catching up on your pleasure reading over the recent holidays, I took a different route. Call me a martyr, but one of the many higher-ed-related tomes I tackled by the fire on those dark late December nights was Tuition Rising: Why College Costs...
Feb 15, 2017 | Article, First Weeks of College, Humor, Parenting, Student Success
The sixth comic in the College Parents of America Humor series is now available on Collegeparents.org. This comic, a collaboration between College Parents of America and Hector Curriel, illuminates a distinction between college and high school approaches to academic...
Apr 25, 2014 | Article, Completing, Post College, Preparing
Looking for an early jump on your Sunday paper? College Parents of America recommends that you try these recent stories about higher education. Chronicle of Higher Education: Supreme Court Upholds Michigan’s Ban on Race-Conscious Admissions WSJ: Amid Affirmative...
Mar 30, 2011 | Article, Completing, Post College, Research & Advocacy
Last week, we posted College without Completion — Post #1, which discussed National Center for Educational Statistics’s published statistics on cohort graduation rates. We continue the College without Completion thread with this post. (image by flickr user...