Students

Recovery programs that help students with alcohol and drug problems are more welcome as campus leaders try to help students overcome social barriers that prevent them from earning degrees.

California education law will now refer to those with economic or social challenges as "at-promise" students. Advocates hope the impact will be more than just a semantic shift.

Supporters of Ohio State plan to create undergraduate degree program in esports believe it will produce versatile and employable graduates for fast-growing gaming industry. Opponents say gaming as a scholarly pursuit has no place in academe.

Graduate student's suicide at UW Madison is a devastating cautionary tale about abusive lab environments.

Michael Johnson Jr. calls on tenured and tenure-track faculty to combat an incremental erosion of faculty governance.

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.

Clark University dismisses a graduate student who complained about possible gender discrimination and research misconduct, saying she couldn't find a new adviser within 30 days.

The National Collegiate Athletic Association's governing board votes to allow college athletes to be compensated in third-party sponsorship deals.