The most excellent Tumblr of the Sunlight Foundation
Paying For College: Financial Aid In America, In 2 Graphics
Tuition has gone through the roof in the past decade. But so has financial aid.
Grants — scholarships and other money that doesn’t have to be paid back — have risen by more than 50 percent, to nearly $7,000 per student per year. (That’s after adjusting for inflation.) Student loans have risen by a similar amount.
Growing Education Divide in Cities
College graduates are more unevenly distributed in the top 100 metropolitan areas now than they were four decades ago. More adults have bachelor’s degrees, but the difference between the most and least educated metro areas is double what it was in 1970.
Do College Freshmen Feel Academically Prepared for Classes?
Words used in commencement speeches
If you’ve visited YouTube in the past couple of weeks, you’ve probably noticed the links to this year’s commencement speeches by all the famous people (Conan O’Brien’s at Dartmouth has been my favorite so far). Most speakers seem to base a lot on their own experiences, but they tend to revolve around the same themes like meeting challenges, don’t fear failure, and love what you do. Of course, there’s still plenty of variance across speeches though.
The Post-Grad Hipster’s Guide to Inhabitable U.S. Cities.
Since you all liked the last hipster map we posted so much, here’s a lark from Wesleyan University student blog Wesleying.
