Institutions

Despite best intentions, today’s first-generation college students and their professors “misunderstand and ultimately fail one another” in the classroom, according...

Students not enrolled full time have less faculty interaction -- and so do full-timers at colleges with many part-timers, study finds.

Mount Holyoke College works to boost number of community college transfers, achieving unusual success for a liberal arts college.

For-profit giant reports that its enrollment grew to 443,000 as of August, up 22 percent from a year ago. But stock drops as company announces federal inquiry.

A new movement is encouraging Christian colleges to embrace the teaching of evolution -- without giving up professors' or students' faith.

Throughout the last year, leaders of many four-year colleges have adopted the mantra that their institutions can "no longer be...

Study finds that half of all medical students feel undereducated about economics and health care systems.

Survey of state directors of community college systems finds many experienced midyear state budget cuts last year and expect another round of such cuts in 2010.