Experts Say Remedial College Classes Need Fixing
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — Each year, an estimated 1.7 million U.S. college students are steered to remedial classes to catch them up and prepare the...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — Each year, an estimated 1.7 million U.S. college students are steered to remedial classes to catch them up and prepare the...
AP | Posted 05.28.2012
ATLANTA -- A young Georgia woman battling a flesh-eating disease could hardly believe it when she was able to speak Sunday for the first time since sh...
Jeff A. Katz | Posted 05.27.2012
After you walk across the stage and accept your diploma, there is a question you need to keep in mind and an answer for yourself when things get rough (and they will): What great things have come from being comfortable?
Pamela Trotman Reid | Posted 05.25.2012
Recently, another small college closed its doors. Are private institutions effectively serving the needs of students, the community, and the nation?
Ellen Schloemer | Posted 05.25.2012
News stories about student loan debt have suddenly become as numerous as stories on the U.S. economic recovery. For some really scary statistics, check out a recent College Board study on for-profit colleges.
Yvette Kantrow | Posted 05.25.2012
It's hard to turn around these days without bumping into a story bemoaning, debating, defending or decrying the skyrocketing costs of higher education.
The Huffington Post | Posted 05.24.2012
Graduation season is upon us, but don't think that means you're doomed to listen to "Pomp and Circumstance" on repeat. Everyone from Kanye West to Kat...
Reuters | Posted 05.25.2012
ATLANTA, May 24 (Reuters) - A Georgia graduate student fighting a rare flesh-eating bacterial infection she contracted after being injured in a zip-...
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Posted 05.24.2012
By Hannah Orenstein The transition from high school to college is undoubtedly one of the biggest you'll make throughout your life. Some of those ch...
Adam Levin | Posted 05.24.2012
The system by which we fund higher education may be horribly broken, but that in no way means the people who are a product of it should be written off. Graduates should feel empowered to effect these changes. If they don't -- if they're all too cynical and feel there's no use in trying -- then we're in big trouble.
Michael Roth | Posted 05.24.2012
By no means is the three-year option for everyone. But if we can offer families the same quality undergraduate degree at a significantly reduced total price -- and I think we can -- why not do it?
Eli Capilouto | Posted 05.23.2012
The University of Kentucky hopes to become the first university of our size in the country to turn over management of an entire housing system to a private company. Such a public-private partnership turns the traditional model on its head.
Josh A. Goodman | Posted 05.23.2012
I feel a responsibility to use my privilege to address privilege. This comes through my awareness of privilege and prejudices, and my efforts to critically address my own prejudices and call others out on theirs, too.
The Huffington Post | Hannah Orenstein | Posted 05.23.2012
After four years of hard work in the library, weekends spent studying and waking up early to catch the bus to school, the grad in your life deserves ...
Elisa Stephens | Posted 05.23.2012
It is true that young people today are light years ahead of past generations in mastering new technologies and adopting innovation. But nothing changes the fact that a 21st century economy requires a 21st century education.
Uloop | Posted 05.22.2012
This adjustment started at the peak of my adolescence, when I moved to the U.S. After introductions, I had to explain who I was and why I didn't fit their expectation of a Haitian girl. I'm often referred to as the "white Haitian" or the "light-skinned chick."
Marjorie Hansen Shaevitz | Posted 05.22.2012
If you write about something you care about and dare to be yourself, or perhaps use a bit of irony or "tongue in cheek," you might just end up having a good time.
Jeff Selingo | Posted 05.22.2012
When Harvard and MIT announced that they would offer online courses free to the masses, they pledged $60 million to the effort. All for courses that, for now, won't bring in a penny in tuition revenue.
Daniel Weiss | Posted 05.22.2012
America's higher education system is under siege. Changes in economics, technology, demographics and attitudes regarding the relevance of a college degree are forcing many institutions to rethink the way they operate.
Quora | Posted 05.22.2012
There are the drawbacks to being a professor. I love my job, but it is becoming increasingly difficult for me to do it well -- or even to do it at all.
Brittany Woods | Posted 05.21.2012
Students knew my name because it was whispered beneath their breath in class. And I became the center of attention because I was considered "the girl who cried rape."
Paul Stoller | Posted 05.21.2012
STEM is important in the future of higher education, but so are the social sciences and humanities which teach students how to think critically and to how assess the social and cultural ramifications of rapid technological change.
Peak Johnson | Posted 05.21.2012
So far, Temple has been great. It is challenging at times, but I wouldn't change it. CCP prepared me to know what to expect of college-level work and how to best tackle it.
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Posted 05.18.2012
This piece comes to us courtesy of a partnership between the Philadelphia Public School Notebook, WHYY/NewsWorks, American Graduate: Let's Make it Hap...
Aaron Belz | Posted 05.18.2012
Add his position as a Christian campus minister at University of South Carolina to his wicked sense of verbal and situational irony, and Sammy Rhodes (@prodigalsam) has both the raw materials and intellectual giftedness to cultivate a Twitter following.
AP | HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH | Posted 05.29.2012