Filter & Sort
Getting Them to Give
Administrators from historically black colleges and universities discuss ways to increase alumni giving participation.
Social Networks and College Choices
Survey shows that prospective students use Facebook more than any other network to research colleges, and they're looking primarily to interact with current students and admissions officers.
Who's in Control?
New details emerge in accreditation crisis at City College of San Francisco, and a tussle brews between former for-profit foe Bob Shireman and faculty groups at California's community colleges.
Quasi-For-Profit Humanities College
New College of the Humanities, in London, seeks to meld the American liberal arts and Oxford tutorial models. But critics have focused on its £18,000 annual price tag and its corporate structure.
Northern Baptists
A new Baptist college is planned for Vermont, by many measures the nation's least religious state.
Get Me a Med School! Stat!
Several prominent universities, driven by revenue and prestige concerns, are building or merging with medical schools at a furious pace.
Critical Mass
About 10 percent of black computer science professors and Ph.D. students nationwide are at Clemson, thanks in large part to the work of one professor.
Opinion
Clear Expectations on Readiness
Colleges and policymakers could help more students succeed by making non-academic college readiness part of Common Core standards, write Melinda Mechur Karp and Rachel Hare Bork.