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The right commencement speaker can create a memorable experience, generate favorable media coverage for the school and inspire donors. So why do colleges miss the mark on this once-a-year decision?
Students in windowless rooms are reporting anxiety, depression and fatigue. A professor of architecture says developers need to let the light shine in.
Legal rulings throw fate of special scholarships for ethnic minorities into doubt.
Nearly half of all students who enroll in college never finish. Are colleges and universities to blame?
The legalization and ease of online sports betting is fueling a rise in gambling disorders among young people.
A few Ivy League schools say the tests enable them to find students of promise from low-income families. But not all sociologists agree.
In the past, adolescents’ musical palettes were dominated by the Top-40 artists, creating a widely shared – if perhaps narrow – repertoire of musical knowledge.
A college administrator offers insights into the rocky rollout of the Department of Education’s supposedly ‘simplified’ financial aid form.
Inclusive postsecondary education programs help students with intellectual disabilities make friends and become independent adults.
As fashion norms change, what people wear in public becomes ground zero for hashing out new ideas of race, class and gender.
Scholars differ over whether having students use AI in their assignments will help or hurt their careers after graduation.
An increase in anti-Asian hate incidents during the pandemic contributed to a rise in depression among Asian and Asian American college students, a study found.
Forming study groups and reaching out to professors can greatly improve a first-year student’s chances for success.
College students who postpone medical care to save money end up paying for it down the line in the form of worse health, a researcher contends.
A project to upgrade a high school playing field led to a book on how to inspire more young people to pursue careers as urban planners.
Students told researchers that the cost of going to a for-profit college changed over time and eventually became too much to bear.
The quality of public debate over free speech in higher education matters. And the debate right now gets the facts all wrong.
A new survey found that many people avoid college due to stress. A course design expert says it doesn’t have to be that way.
A sociology professor uses the popular ‘Boondocks’ cartoon to explore contemporary issues of race in American society.
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