Gabrielle Grow

I can't help but wonder whether or not the protests are constructive. What are the protesters accomplishing by pulling fire alarms in lecture halls? Pulling fire alarms or pounding on the walls of classrooms is not a constructive approach to solving the problem.

Leah Finnegan

Today, March 4, is the Day of Action to Defend Public Education, a movement that originated in California last fall in response to threats of staggeri...

Lynn Jacobs and Jeremy Hyman

For some, it costs about as much as a Lexus. Every year. We've got 13 tips for you about how to get your money's worth out of college.

Leah Finnegan

Reading our partners' papers, I'm not worried about the future of journalism. Rest assured it exists, en masse, typing away on college campuses around the country.

Jeff A. Katz

Our penchant for technology has only made our quest for companionship easier. Want to test if the girl you want has even the slightest interest in what you're doing without putting yourself out there completely? Send along that blank "accidental" text message.

Meredith Segal

According to the Higher Education Research Institute, the percent of first-year college students who believe that it is very important to help people in need is at its highest level since 1970. Without question, ours is a generation seeking to help.

Josh Weinstein

Founder, YouAre.TV

After the last lecture of "High-Tech Entrepreneurship" -- my last college class -- I had a strong sense I should further pursue GoodCrush. I had begun to attend entrepreneurship club meetings and chatting with angel investors.

Malorie Lucich

Thanks to an infinite number of blogs and the evolving cycle of 24-hour news, we are no longer restricted to news from just a few networks. Sites like Facebook are empowering people to cut through the clutter and discover the content most relevant to them.

Frank Moss

College students' mastery of the Mobile Web is an incredible phenomenon to observe, perhaps the greatest manifestation yet of the power of information and communication technology to change our lives. This is why I believe that today's college students will save it.

Michael Hais and Morley Winograd

Co-authors, 'Millennial Momentum' and 'Millennial Makeover'; Fellows with NDN and the New Policy Institute

More than twice as many 18-29 year olds voted for Obama as for McCain in 2008, and one year later the party preferences of college students remain similarly lopsided in favor of the Democratic Party.

Beverly Daniel Tatum

President, Spelman College

Where black students are woefully under-represented in predominantly white institutions, historically black colleges and universities have demonstrated great effectiveness in fostering academic success.

Michael Roth

President, Wesleyan University

if interdisciplinary academic programs for undergrads were adventurous in the late 1950s, today they are as common on campuses as fake IDs.

Sec. Arne Duncan

U.S. Secretary of Education

President Obama has a plan to move our money from banks to students to make college more affordable for the next generation of engineers, teachers, and scientists.

Bliss Davis

Bliss Davis is a multimedia journalist and broadcast journalism major (senior) at Bowling Green State University.

The hardest part about owing so much is knowing I am judged for my decision to go to school. If I had not gone to college I would be considered another statistical waste of space.

Travis Walters

Travis Walters is a student at the Savannah College of Art and Design, where he is also editor of the SCAD District.

In the end I'll owe approximately $60,000 in federal and private loans. I think the worst thing that could happen now would be regretting that I spent that much money. But, I don't. I think it was worth it.

Sara Tobin

The current value of my childhood home is probably less than amount of money I have borrowed in student loans. The fact that I am $100,000 in debt is so humiliating that I almost did not write this.