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The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

The Daily Free Press

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EDITORIAL: We should all be advocating to eliminate student loans

EDITORIAL: We should all be advocating to eliminate student loans

Editors December 9, 2020
Our society’s subconscious desire to see people suffer with outdated and exploitative norms — just because we did — is selfish, and we should be putting in our best effort to actually change the systems that neglected our needs.
The Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies hosted a panel Tuesday to encourage students to incorporate human rights into their career paths. COLE SCHONEMAN/ DFP FILE

Int’l relations professionals share how to break into human rights work

Caroline Bowden November 12, 2020

As public health, migration and climate crises persist around the globe, younger generations, including current college students, will soon take on the burden of these issues. A panel of experts...

Damariz Itzel Posadas Aparicio, a Master of Theological Studies candidate at Boston University’s School of Theology and recipient of the Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals or “DACA” program, spoke at a virtual panel on Tuesday hosted by the Latin American Studies Department on immigration reform. LAURYN ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

BU professors host ‘DACA’ panel, call for immigration reform

Yiran Yu November 2, 2020
Millions of Americans will have decided the next president by Tuesday night, and in an election as heavily contested as this year’s, a number of socio-political issues prevail on voters’ minds, including that of DACA.
A report released Thursday by Lumina Foundation found that there has been progress to increase postsecondary education, but rates are not sufficient enough to meet United States' economic demands in the future. GRAPHIC BY OLIVIA NADEL/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Lumina report addresses college achievement gap, calls for reform

Hannah Libby April 14, 2015

Although more students are earning college degrees, there is still a nationwide achievement gap that leaves the United States’ workforce demands unmet, a Thursday report by the Lumina Foundation found. The...

More millennials are earning college degrees overall, but less bachelor's degrees, according to a Pew Research Center survey published Thursday. GRAPHIC BY SAMANTHA GROSS/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Millennials are earning more ‘some college’ degrees than bachelor’s, report finds

Katherine Merwin March 23, 2015

Although more millennials are attending college, a fewer percentage of millennials are obtaining bachelor’s degrees compared to their Generation X counterparts, according to a Thursday survey by the...

There is a growing divide between students earning bachelor’s degrees depending on family income, according to a report released Tuesday. GRAPHIC BY SAMANTHA GROSS/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Income disparity for college degree completion increases

Inaara Tajuddin February 6, 2015

The gap between high-income and low-income students earning bachelor’s degrees has widened over the last 40 years, according to a Tuesday study by the Pell Institute. The study, titled “Indicators...

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