“Colleges began to see themselves as providing this very broad suite of services, all of which were personnel-intensive,” Wood said — athletics, housing, dining, security, transportation, mental ...

I remember the first time I walked into a prison writing workshop. The shadowed room contained little more than a dozen mismatched plastic chairs and a few warped tables. Before I signed up, I had ...

AMHERST, Mass. — The parking lots are mostly vacant. Locked and dark, many of the buildings are lifeless but for dying plants in dusty pots. One of the few people visible is a white-bearded man on a ...

N.Y.U. built a 23-story glass and steel building in Greenwich Village for $1.2 billion as part of its expansion plans in Lower Manhattan. It pays no property taxes for the space.footprint in the city, ...

As student mental health care needs overwhelm college counseling departments, universities create programs that prescribe nature, arts and belonging ...

An investigation found what Texas disciplinary programs look like at their worst. This is what they can look like when someone decides to do it differently ...

Americans are turning against higher education. At least, that’s what many of them say. Only 31 percent of Americans now consider a college education “very important,” accor ...

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Colleges and universities should offer fair financial aid packages and provide transparency about the true cost ...