University students don't always mix outside their own area of study or cultural cliques. But that can change with a little encouragement, and food helps.
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Duke University recently decided to assign random roommates for incoming students. Is this silly social engineering or smart policy?
Even though they weren't particularly interested in having sex, fear of ridicule and insecurities tugged at many of the young men the author spoke with.
It's estimated that 20 percent of first year students are put on academic probation. That's not a small number. Universities are beginning to tackle the problem head on.
For many disabled students, college is the first time that they're put to the test of making their own way. The experience can be challenging, but there are strategies to help ease the way.
Cyber threats are universal. But the appropriate response may be quite different in academia from what works in the corporate world.
Protest movements become radicalised by two factors: escalating policing and competitive escalation between political adversaries and other protesting groups.
The system of apartheid is long gone. But its legacy of poor funding for historically black universities - and of planning that banished black universities to cities' margins - remains.
Students heading back to school face a wide variety of choices in housing. Multiple studies have shown how on-campus living can enhance learning.
As a family and marriage researcher, I have conducted a lot of research into what makes relationships work. I tend to think about relationships in terms of couples. When I was appointed the senior administrator…
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