Graduation rates

It’s tourney time. March Madness. The big dance. Thousands of college students will muster energy never before seen in lecture halls to cheer one of 65 college basketball teams to the national championship.

Television rights to the tournament account for 90 percent of the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s annual revenue. 

A national outplacement consulting firm, Challenger, Gray & Christmas, estimates that businesses will lose $237 million a day as people follow the tournament during working hours.

Time it takes to earn a doctorate is shrinking ever so slightly, new study finds.

Study finds significant improvements in graduation rates -- although gaps remain.

Community college graduation rates are low -- in some cases abysmally so. And as the push grows to hold colleges accountable for their students’ academic success, some leaders of two-year institutions have expressed concern that the low completion rates could make the colleges appear ineffective.

But a study released Wednesday by the Education Department's National Center for Education Statistics offers some evidence to back up the argument of some community college officials that the institutions do pretty well with those who actually want to earn a degree.

More UConn freshmen than ever are sticking around after a year, and it’s no coincidence.

A proposed federal database of students' academic records, supported by U.S. commission, isn’t a hit with the public, a survey finds.

"Report card" on higher education finds U.S. trailing other countries -- with cost of attendance growing as problem for families.

Overall success rate for Division I athletes rises 1 percentage point in second year of the association's new formula.

Study says there is a simple way to increase (or decrease) graduation rates: increase (or decrease) state appropriations.

A symposium on student success kicked off Wednesday with a sobering message from the keynote speaker: “It’s clear that students in our universities are making progress, but only modest progress, ” said Derek C. Bok, interim president at Harvard University and the author of six books on higher education.

“Our current practices are out of step with our values as faculty members,” Bok said. “We want to provide the best undergraduate educational experience possible and that is not what is happening.”