Admissions

A personalized coaching model for at-risk first-year students helps address persistence at Shepherd University. The intervention has expanded campuswide, allowing all learners to receive this kind of help.

The traditional college-age population will peak next year. Is higher education ready to face the coming decline?

You know there’s something wrong when the proportion of low-income students at elite colleges has barely changed over a century, Jim Jump writes.

Prior dual-enrollment experience made students more likely to finish their credential within six years of starting college, according to a new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.

New data shows enrollment among 18-year-old freshmen dropped this year. Some higher ed experts say last year’s botched FAFSA rollout is at least partly to blame.