For many students, the first year of college is a wild ride of unexpected twists and turns. Not only are they living away from home for the first time, but they’re also learning to adapt to new levels ...

I n the coffee shop on our campus, students gather around a blackboard. On the table lies an open copy of Lobachevsky’s Theory of Parallels. Each student holds a different color of chalk and marks a ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. Recently published data from the educational consulting group EAB shows that first-year students at ...

That sums up the gist of what many people wanted to know from me, since I transferred from community college to the University. That emphasis on “real” was fascinating to me, as if the first two years ...

When it comes to my children’s college education, I’ve taken a fundamentally different approach than many parents. I don’t obsess over their GPAs or pressure them to make the dean’s list. What matters ...

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The cost of a college education has been under scrutiny amid crippling levels of student debt. That's also true in some cases for online degrees of dubious quality and outcomes. Special correspondent ...