High school stu­dents take notice: Don’t expect Mom and Dad to leave imme­di­ately after they move you in to school. On Mon­day, the New York Times ran an arti­cle high­light­ing the var­i­ous ways col­leges han­dle heli­copter par­ents who are help­ing their chil­dren move in to their new dorms. More specif­i­cally, col­lege deans and ori­en­ta­tion leaders […]

Last week, Gawker ran an arti­cle cit­ing the top ten tra­di­tional uni­ver­si­ties that have the high­est stu­dent debt. The data was pulled by a recent study by the Depart­ment of Edu­ca­tion, which actu­ally revealed that the top three insti­tu­tions with high­est stu­dent debt are actu­ally for-profit schools, which are often crit­i­cized for not lead­ing to lucrative-enough […]

When com­pared to the rest of the world, some say we're far behind in edu­ca­tion. Our sci­ence sucks, our math is ele­men­tary, and our lan­guage skills are as diverse as a Stephe­nie Meyer book sign­ing.  When com­pared to the other rest of the world, some taut Amer­i­can edu­ca­tion as more robust than most coun­tries on […]

Higher edu­ca­tion is not about money, not at the heart of it. Higher edu­ca­tion is about learn­ing to think, and while the abil­ity to think is not as tan­gi­ble as a cold, hard pay­check, say­ing “No way!” to col­lege is say­ing “No way!” to a life­time of both finan­cial and cul­tural growth.

A recent arti­cle on The Huff­in­g­ton Post dis­cusses a grow­ing con­cern in higher edu­ca­tion: how should we teach writ­ing? What should our stu­dents learn?

This arti­cle is in response to "Plan B: Skip Col­lege" by Jacques Stein­berg, which was pub­lished on May 14 in the New York Times. "Plan B" details many rea­sons why some high school stu­dents may be bet­ter off pur­su­ing a voca­tional course or appren­tice­ship rather than a col­lege degree. Included among these are the high cost […]

The apple often doesn't fall far from the tree. We all know that adage. For bet­ter or for worse, our moms (and dads) make a big dif­fer­ence in our col­lege and career suc­cess. What to do if your par­ents were not well-educated or high up on the pro­fes­sional ladder.

How many solic­i­ta­tions have you received in the mail to apply for such-and-such uni­ver­sity or check out a sneak pre­view day at so-and-so col­lege? How many shiny, slick brochures with smil­ing faces and gleam­ing build­ings have grazed your front door stoop? How many catchy "get a degree now" sub­ject lines have popped up in your inbox? […]

Stu­dents are tak­ing a very active role in exam­in­ing the poli­cies that shape their col­lege experiences—I think that we’re going to see more uni­ver­si­ties look at gender-neutral hous­ing among many other ini­tia­tives that mat­ter to students.

Web humor seems to spew out of the sub­ject of col­lege, from CollegeHumor's prank wars to PartySchoolTexts.com to fake Face­book col­lege groups, but rarely does a funny site poke fun at the insti­tu­tions them­selves. Rife with admin­is­tra­tion bureau­cracy and run by self-proclaimed intel­lec­tu­als, col­leges and uni­ver­si­ties are surely worth a jab for being the squarish […]