Posts by Dave Bergman:

Online College Review: Harding University

Posted on: 07 May 2026

Harding University is a private Christian university in Searcy, Arkansas, founded in 1924 and accredited by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC). It is the largest private university in Arkansas, with total enrollment of approximately 4,600 students across undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs. Harding offers more than 110 undergraduate majors, 14 preprofessional programs, and over 40 […]

Kimberly-Clark Tuition Assistance: Online Degrees for Kimberly-Clark Employees

Posted on: 07 May 2026

Kimberly-Clark, the consumer goods manufacturer behind Kleenex, Huggies, Scott, Cottonelle, Kotex, and Depend, employs approximately 38,000 people globally across manufacturing operations, R&D, supply chain, sales, marketing, finance, IT, and corporate functions. The company operates an Education Assistance Program for eligible employees, administered through Fidelity NetBenefits, that reimburses tuition, books, and required course fees for approved […]

Burger King Tuition Reimbursement: Online Degrees for Burger King Employees

Posted on: 07 May 2026

Burger King team members searching for tuition reimbursement face a different situation from employees at companies like Walmart, Starbucks, Chipotle, or Target. Burger King does not offer a traditional tuition reimbursement program at the corporate level. The company’s primary education benefit is the Burger King Scholars Program, a competitive scholarship program administered through the Burger […]

Best Online Universities for InStride Partner Companies (Adidas, Labcorp, Aramark, Intermountain Health, and More)

Posted on: 07 May 2026

If your employer offers tuition assistance through InStride, you have access to a curated network of accredited universities, with tuition flowing directly from your employer to the school in most cases. The decision that determines whether your benefit pays off is which school you pick from inside the network. The InStride school catalog is smaller […]

The Complete Guide to Employer Tuition Reimbursement (2026)

Posted on: 06 May 2026

More than half of U.S. employers offer some form of tuition assistance, and the largest among them now fund full bachelor’s degrees with no out-of-pocket cost to the employee. The benefit has shifted from a quiet HR perk into a category of compensation worth thousands of dollars per year, sometimes more than $20,000 over the […]

The Vanishing Jobs: Careers to Think Twice About

Posted on: 01 May 2026

Two Distinct Forces Are Shrinking the Labor Market, and They Require Different Responses Of 744 occupations in our dataset, 228 are projected to decline over the next decade. The decline is not uniform. Some careers are shrinking because artificial intelligence can perform their core tasks. Others are shrinking because the industries themselves are contracting for […]

The Debt-to-Earnings Reality Check: Which Colleges Leave Graduates Underwater?

Posted on: 24 Apr 2026

How to use the College Scorecard’s debt and earnings data to separate colleges that pay off from those that don’t. When families evaluate the cost of college, they tend to focus on the sticker price: tuition, room, board, fees. And when financial aid arrives, the conversation shifts to the out-of-pocket number—what we’ll actually write a […]

The Slow Fade of the Small College: Why Liberal Arts Institutions Are Losing the Enrollment Battle

Posted on: 17 Apr 2026

The same forces reshaping admissions are pulling selective liberal arts colleges in two very different directions Colby College, a small liberal arts school in Waterville, Maine, received 7,593 applications in 2015. By 2024, that number had surged to 19,187—a 153 percent increase that outpaced Harvard, Stanford, and nearly every research university in the country. Colby’s […]