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Getting a job in the medical field seemed like a good fit for Kayla Hales of North Royalton, Ohio. After all, Northeast Ohio is a medical mecca. Health care is one of the biggest drivers of the local economy.
But a recent analysis of federal data shows that some health care credentials don’t have much, if any, long-term economic payoff.

Fifteen years ago, Kenny Butler had just been sentenced to life in prison. Today, Butler, 47, is on track to earn his bachelor’s degree through a new program at Pitzer College, a small private liberal arts school in Southern California.
The program, which began last December, is based on Inside Out curriculum—a type of teaching that brings college students and professors into prisons to learn alongside incarcerated students.

President Joe Biden's Build Back Better plan proposes billions of dollars in funding to make two years of community college free for all students, regardless of family income.
On this podcast, students discuss the proposal—plus the challenges of transferring to a four-year institution to obtain a bachelor's degree. Mark Huelsman of the Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice joins the conversation with his thoughts on affordability and access.

Higher education was transformed in the 19th and 20th centuries to meet the needs of an emerging national, analog, industrial economy. Today, higher education is again being transformed—this time to serve the needs of a global, digital, knowledge economy.
People fundamentally disagree, however, about what form that transformation will take.