Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...

Bill Woodburn (MS ’75) grew up in a lower-income area of Queens, New York, where higher education seemed a world away. “I had two great parents, but we didn’t have any money,” he remembers. “No one ...

Hollywood tells us police chases are supposed to be harrowing, high-speed affairs. Time and time again we are shown flashy sports cars with flashier women in the passenger seat careening over San ...