higher education

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In 2025, only 42% of Americans expressed “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in higher education, up slightly from recent years, but still down from 57% in 2015, according to Gallup.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

Most of these restrictions concluded with the end of Jewish quotas in U.S. higher education in the 1960s and 1970s.

From Salon • Apr. 6, 2026

That figure does not include further and higher education, which is not the responsibility of DE.

From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026

Yodchanan, a biomedical engineering professor, was also made minister for higher education, science, research and information.

From Barron's • Mar. 31, 2026

Such was the foolish logic of this program of social reform: Because many Hispanics were absent from higher education, I became with my matriculation an exception, a numerical minority.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez