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What Makes a Student Withdraw?
A new study from Penn State sheds light on what compels a college student receiving mental health care to stop out. How can counselors use this information to promote student success?
Bethune-Cookman Students Protest Campus Conditions
Hundreds of students at Bethune-Cookman University gathered on campus Monday afternoon to protest what they said were unlivable conditions in...
The Ethics of Brain-Computer Interfacing: Academic Minute
Today on the Academic Minute: Nancy Jecker, professor in the department of bioethics and humanities at the University of Washington...
College Physical Education Requirements Continue to Decline
About 32 percent of U.S. colleges and universities require students to take some sort of physical education course to graduate—down...
U of Minnesota President Quits Controversial Board Seat
University of Minnesota president Joan Gabel on Monday resigned her position on the Securian Financial Board of Directors, citing weeks...
Opinion
Accreditors Are Sleeping on the Job
The accrediting agencies’ collective failure to hold low-performing colleges accountable against objective standards harms students and taxpayers, Jay Urwitz writes.
New Presidents or Provosts: College of Wooster, Illinois Valley CC, Johnson & Wales U–Charlotte, Lawrence U, NHTI–Concord’s CC, Regis U, Rocky Mountain U, West Virginia U Institute of Technology
Salvador D. Aceves, senior vice president and chief financial officer at Regis University, in Colorado, has been named president there...
Opinion
Friend or Foe?
To determine what materials to allow students to bring to exams, Nancy S. Schorschinsky conducted her own experiments and discovered some insightful results.