Academics

Wayne Stauffer offers a few strategies for minimizing it.

A nonpartisan watchdog group is questioning whether City Colleges of Chicago is misleading the public with proclamations of dramatic graduation rate increases.

Diversification bid from the two well-respected for-profits comes amid serious shake-up of the sector, which continues despite a more favorable regulatory climate.

We should not abandon remedial education and accelerate people who don’t know the basics, argues John Almy.

Colleges should reach out to high schools to help them identify students who can guide their peers on the path to higher education, writes Keith Frome.

A big boost to college completion would pay off for students and the economy, a new paper finds, but would substantially increase the federal deficit.

The new status quo may be more calls by state lawmakers for better completion rates and work-force outcomes.

Colleges and universities must build on first-year programs to help sophomore students define the questions that will guide their academic journeys, write Sarah Barber and Robert Thacker.