Ashley A. Smith
Ed Source ReporterAshley A. Smith covers higher education and other student success reforms for EdSource. She joined the publication in July 2019 after covering community colleges, for-profit schools and non-traditional students for Inside Higher Ed, in Washington D.C. Her work has appeared in the Fort Myers News-Press, the Marshfield News-Herald, The Flint Journal, USA Today and the Detroit Free Press. Ashley grew up in Detroit and is a 2008 graduate of Michigan State University. In 2020, Ashley was selected to join the first class of journalists in the ECMC Foundation Higher Education Media Fellowship at the Institute for Citizens & Scholars, to report on career and technical education.
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The end of the pandemic pause means student borrowers as of Oct. 1 resumed loan payments. Here's a guide for anyone who owes college debt or who is looking to borrow money for college. -
Current students worry they will be pushed out of dorms. Protests held.
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Decrease is largely due to record losses in transfers from the community colleges
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When it votes in January, the CSU board of trustees plans to reject a proposal to require a fourth year of high school math for admission.
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New study concludes that the nation’s largest university system underpays non-faculty staff
