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New data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center also highlights completion rates for the last students whose college experience was interrupted by COVID-19.

The enrollment growth has been accompanied by growing pains, leaders say, as they figure out how to house, feed and teach more students.

The number of institutions that give applicants a boost if their parents graduated from the same college or university has...

The change is mission-driven, according to the seminary’s president. It comes as a federal earnings test turns up the heat on theological colleges, which train their students to enter largely low-paying, service-oriented jobs.

Starting next fall, thousands of students at Carleton College, a selective private institution in Minnesota, will no longer be expected...

The authors recommend supporting adult learners with credit-for-prior-learning initiatives, debt forgiveness and flexible scheduling options for courses and campus services. 

A Massachusetts judge issued the injunction hours before the regulation was set to take effect. Institutions worried it would harm international students.

Small private colleges are struggling to outrecruit the publics. But they can invest more in retention, by doing better what they already do best.

By Larry Bomback