Filter & Sort
'Undermatching' Pros and Cons
New study finds both positive and negative results of attending a less competitive college than where one might have enrolled.
Inflation Plus Whatever
Middlebury College gives itself a loophole in its plan linking tuition, room and board to inflation.
You're Admitted... Not
As more colleges send emails telling rejected applicants they have been admitted, some admissions officers share what they learned from their mistakes.
Front Line Instructors
Writing professors find themselves playing a critical and unexpected role in the education of veterans.
Ratings or Rankings?
A new paper by the American Council on Education says the Obama administration's ratings proposal is likely to lead to the same negative consequences as college rankings.
Starting All Over Again
Community college students who transfer to a four-year institution have good odds of earning a bachelor's degree, new research finds, unless they lose credits in the transfer process.
Talk About Class
Colleges that want first-generation college students to thrive need to talk -- in supportive ways -- about the realities of social class in America and in higher education, write Nicole M. Stephens, MarYam G. Hamedani and Mesmin Destin.
Is a Criminal Past Relevant?
Some Princeton students push university to stop asking whether applicants have been convicted of anything. They say academe needs more people with experience in the justice system.