The colleges were among 697 institutions that The Princeton Review included in their green ratings system. The green ratings were determined by using ...
Sophie Pollitt-Cohen | Posted 08.20.2009 | Media
I love the recent changes to the Times Wedding Announcements because they reflect New York as it truly is -- a city full of different kinds of people. The changes could go further. I have some suggestions.
Alexander Dresner | Posted 08.16.2009 | Living
Are the benefits of being on life's fast track worth the costs?
AP | Anne Wallace Allen | Posted 08.07.2009 | Style
For high school students who have the time and money to travel, visiting a college campus is the best way to get a sense of the students, the faculty,...
Yvonne R. Davis | Posted 08.06.2009 | Politics
It seemed okay in 2008 for a University Professor to harass a Muslim student and get away with it.
Jon Chattman | Posted 07.31.2009 | Politics
With the lack of jobs for new graduates, as well as older borrowers, there is a looming student loan bubble about to burst.
Auren Hoffman | Posted 07.31.2009 | Living
In college you eat huge amounts of instant noodles and cereal. In the real world, you spend your entire paycheck on Whole Foods and tofu.
Carolyn Rubenstein | Posted 07.26.2009 | Living
How incredible it is that in a split second, we can shift our mindset from negative to positive. I work to overcome the feeling of being "not good enough" by using the following strategies.
Anya Kamenetz | Posted 07.23.2009 | Politics
Obama's administration has been unusually respectful of the role of community colleges.
Washington Post | Walter Pincus | Posted 07.21.2009 | Politics
To the list of collegiate types -- nerds, jocks, Greeks -- add one more: spies in training. The government is hoping they'll be hard to spot. ...
Tom McCaffrey | Posted 07.18.2009 | Comedy
The Delta Chi house has long been swirled in controversy. For years there has been a rumor that the house is haunted by the ghost of a 24 year old fe...
Yahoo! News | Steven Reinberg | Posted 07.17.2009 | Living
Binge drinking among American college students is on the rise, along with its consequences of drunk driving and drinking-related deaths, U.S. health o...
Neil McCarthy | Posted 07.10.2009 | Living
We should celebrate New Years in June, not January. Things seem to more or less end in January.
Jim Randel | Posted 07.06.2009 | Business
About 5 million young adults are graduating from college this month. This rite of passage is perhaps a parent's last chance to instill important lessons about the business world.
Nicolaus Mills | Posted 07.06.2009 | Living
UVA literature professor Mark Edmundson wants students to have the pleasure and excitement of immersing themselves in a book before engaging in a skeptical dialogue about it.
Hilary Pennington | Posted 07.04.2009 | Living
At the nation's most competitive universities, the average graduation rate is 89 percent, while the least competitive universities graduate an average of 12 percent of their students.
newyorker.com | Louis Menand | Posted 07.03.2009 | Living
Creative-writing programs are designed on the theory that students who have never published a poem can teach other students who have never published a...
Jim Randel | Posted 07.02.2009 | Business
Let's use our energies and experience not to prevent young adults from having access to debt but rather to educate them as to how to use debt responsibly.
Sophie Keller | Posted 06.26.2009 | Living
Graduating is about change and moving on, and in the same breath it can be frightening, as well as exciting. Being frightened and excited often have ...
Washington Post | Valerie Strauss | Posted 06.23.2009 | Home
In an era when college students commonly take longer than four years to get a bachelor's degree, some U.S. schools are looking anew at an old idea: sl...
AP | NANCY BENAC and TREVOR TOMPSON | Posted 06.21.2009 | Living
WASHINGTON — Stress over grades. Financial worries. Trouble sleeping. Feeling hopeless. So much for those carefree college days....
Amy Goldwasser | Posted 06.20.2009 | Entertainment
So I loved a storyteller. Don't we all? Is there anything more seductive, really?
Jennifer Vanasco | Posted 06.19.2009 | Living
Gay graduate, you have an advantage that your straight colleagues don't have. You are living in a time when your community is experiencing real hope. Real change.
Dr. Hendrie Weisinger | Posted 06.18.2009 | Living
The best school a college bound student can get into is not necessarily the right school. Shelter-seeking tells you to help your son or daughter pick the right school.
Jamie Frevele | Posted 06.11.2009 | Entertainment
Jimmy Fallon's newly obtained college degree may not seem like a big deal to many people besides Jimmy and his close friends and family. But you know what? I was pretty psyched about it.
Mother Nature Network | Posted 08.28.2009 | Green