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Playbook for Transfer

Community college experts team up to develop a guide to help colleges and universities build success transfer pathways and increase bachelor's completion.

When Service Learning Doesn't Really Serve

Too often, service learning prioritizes students over the people with whom they work, Randy Stoecker argues in a new book.

Need Rural Doctors? Import a Medical School

Over the next nine years, the country will be short as many as 95,000 doctors. To attract them to underserved areas, medical schools are forming regional partnerships.
Opinion

What's Right and Wrong About Research Universities

As he departs as president of the Association of American Universities, Hunter R. Rawlings III considers where leading research universities are today.

The New Out-of-State Pricing Pitch

U of Maine used tuition-matching campaign to force its way into conversation with other Northeastern flagships. Move boosted freshman commitments, but none of the targeted campuses are admitting to losing applicants.

Sweet Briar's Incomplete Recovery

The nearly shuttered college did not hit its May 1 goal for admissions, but leaders hope to snag more students during the summer melt period in the rebuilding effort.

Watchdog Barks -- and Gets Slapped Down

National accreditor ACICS, which faces an existential threat for being too lax with bad actors like Corinthian Colleges, tried to yank its approval of Bristol U, a deeply troubled for-profit. But a judge blocked the accreditor's move.

Good Outcomes for Transfers

Study finds that students who start at community college earn bachelor's degrees at much lower rates -- but those who transfer fare as well as (or better than) "native" four-year-college students.