Institutions

Nevada chancellor mulls whether community colleges, strained by recession and budget crises, should limit enrollments to ensure success for more students.

New effort focuses on preventing unwanted pregnancies at community colleges.

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...