Academics

More information about what works in competency-based programs is needed to inform policy and encourage the growth of this promising form of postsecondary education, writes Charla Long.

By Charla Long

Researchers and higher education professionals discuss how far reforms to developmental education have come -- and how far they have to go.

Report features broad new data on 36 million Americans who left college without a credential, including 3.8 million who returned to college in the last five years, nearly one million of whom completed.

The University of Pittsburgh isn't offering free tuition. Instead, it's matching Pell Grants and shifting merit aid after calculating how much unmet need is too much.

More high school students are getting a head start on college, but dual enrollment is costly for some colleges.

Faculty search committees take note: academic dishonesty extends to CVs, according to a new study.

The system must be fixed to change the current situation in which students take on large debts they often can't repay, argues Arthur M. Hauptman.

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The Texas A&M system is using ReUp Education to find students who stopped out and to help them re-enroll and graduate.