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Enrollment decline; new television show; debate over nursing degrees; student debt in New York City; veto on aid for for-profits in New York State.
The Power of College Counseling
Intense advising shifts the college choices of low-income students, study finds.
To Recruit Students, Welcome Their Pets
Lyon College seeks advantage in recruiting students by allowing them to bring four-legged companions.
Opinion
Not of This Earth
In the interest of peace on earth, Scott McLemee reviews some of the metrics that attempt to gauge the existence of other forms of life in the universe.
Enrollment Slide Continues, at Slower Rate
College enrollments in the U.S. decline for a sixth straight year -- although at a slower rate -- while the bachelor's degree got more popular.
Posttenure Benchwarmers?
New study of economics professors' research effort and impact says they're not exactly "swinging for the fences" after getting tenure.
The Missing Women
Study finds that men speak twice as often as women do at colloquiums, a difference that can't be explained away by rank, speaker pool composition or women's interest in giving talks.
‘Too Much, Too Fast’?
GOP’s Higher Education Act rewrite would give a boost to competency-based education, short-term certificates and alternative providers, but experts worry about the bill’s lack of safeguards.