Students

Centralizing a range of academic services has boosted their use at Hampshire College.

Professors and teachers should not ever be expected to carry firearms to police their classrooms, writes Joshua Grubbs, a faculty member who is also a gun owner.

A new study identifies the gaps between graduates' views of their skills and the views of those who hire them.

Colleges and universities shouldn't care about, or recognize, skills that aren't woven into a program of study that gives them meaning, Johann N. Neem argues.

The American Council on Education has announced plans to evaluate skills learned in the workplace, putting a key higher ed organization in the middle of the alternative credentials landscape.

New project from land-grant university association will bring 100 institutions together to work on improving student completion rates and closing achievement gaps.

Mark Edmundson explores -- and applauds -- current students' quest for identity but says that achieving it is only half the game.

The University of Michigan will allow "alternative resolutions" to resolve certain sexual violence cases, a step some survivor advocates have opposed.