Residential Life

To encourage participation in student activities, campus leaders should recognize the different types of interest levels among learners and what incentivizes them.

Kutztown University in Pennsylvania will receive $2.2 million over five years from the Department of Education to promote engagement and retention for underrepresented minority and low-income students.

Higher ed has a student housing crisis, Ryan Craig writes.

Dorms without air-conditioning are common even at the most selective colleges. But as summers get longer and hotter, many see AC less as a luxury than a necessity.

To promote student participation, higher education practitioners can encourage well-organized student programming groups to carry on traditions and maintain a defined mission.

The university admitted a record number of students this year despite a tight local housing market. But in the end, officials expect to increase head count by only about 730 students.

With the start of the semester two weeks away, students are grappling with absent professors, canceled classes and severe housing woes.