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Dr. Dara N. Byrne: Leveraging Public Higher Education for the Common Good

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“Macaulay can provide an elite education — or a model that exemplifies the best of what higher ed has to offer — but without elitist recruitment or admissions processes,” says Byrne, who has been a faculty member at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (part of CUNY) since 2003.

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Survey: Students and parents stress cost and career prep when picking a college

University Business

Additionally, almost half of the respondents believed the biggest benefit of a college degree is the potential for a better job and income while only 23% chose its educational value. 27% worried that they “Will get into first-choice college but won’t be able to afford to attend.”

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HEI Resources 2025

Higher Education Inquirer

The Diverted Dream: Community colleges and the promise of educational opportunity in America, 19001985. The Price of Admission: How America's Ruling Class Buys its Way into Elite Colleges and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates. Paying the Price: College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dream.

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Skepticism abounds at Supreme Court hearing on debt relief

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The court’s six conservative justices homed in on questions of fairness and what Congress intended when it authorized the education secretary in 2003 to “waive” or “modify” provisions of student loan programs to ensure that those affected by a national emergency aren’t worse off financially.