Doug Wintemute is a staff writer for Forbes Advisor. After completing his master’s in English at York University, he began his writing career in the higher education space. Over the past decade, Doug ...

With today's dizzying array of education and career options — and the increasingly daunting cost of tuition — Americans have never been more skeptical about the value of a college degree. The complex ...

At the end of Indiana’s legislative session, lawmakers stuck a last-minute addition into the state budget bill that instituted enrollment quotas on degree programs at public Indiana colleges. Those ...

Indiana’s public higher education institutions plan to eliminate or consolidate over 400 programs, equaling roughly one-fifth of their degree offerings statewide, the Indiana Commission for Higher ...

Editor's note: This story was updated to include information about the introduction of new degrees created through consolidated programs. Indiana higher education institutions eliminated, suspended or ...

Emily Shields, executive director of Community Colleges for Iowa, which is studying whether the state’s community colleges should be allowed to offer bachelor’s degrees. For some students, “moving to ...

Indiana public colleges, including Purdue University, are cutting or consolidating degree programs with low enrollment. A new state law requires programs to meet minimum graduation thresholds to ...