Institutions

New report on transfer of struggling students from universities to community colleges finds students benefit from moving in nontraditional direction.

New study says typical experience of those who enroll at for-profit colleges is a decline in earnings and a rise in debt.

John Fea, a history chair, describes what he learned on his daughter's college tours about the presence or absence of a liberal arts ethos.

Mainline Protestant theological schools are exploring mergers and campus sales as they feel a prolonged enrollment and financial pinch, but experts see smaller institutions bubbling up under different faiths.

More community colleges are moving away from relying on placement exams alone to figure out whether incoming students need remediation, but establishing a substitute system can be tricky.

Red Wing, Minn., hopes to attract a four-year institution but faces stiff competition from larger, sunnier cities and a history littered with failed branch campus attractions across the country.

A spate of resignations and terminations among community college presidents provokes worries about a shortage of qualified candidates to fill these positions.