Residential Life

Duke University takes away from first-year students the ability to pick their roommates. This move goes against recent trends -- and raises questions about diversity, tolerance and the college experience.

New study shows how wealthy parents and their involvement with their children drastically changes the college experience.

William G. Durden offers a practical proposal for reinventing liberal arts education.

College students organize protests and become activists on gun reform after the deadly shooting in Florida.

Mark Edmundson explores -- and applauds -- current students' quest for identity but says that achieving it is only half the game.

The University of Michigan will allow "alternative resolutions" to resolve certain sexual violence cases, a step some survivor advocates have opposed.

Under potential new policy, student groups at the University of Minnesota could be held responsible if their individual members break the rules. Critics see problems in the potential for collective punishment.

Though University of Texas at Austin called getting rid of fees for counseling "a new investment" in mental health, few institutions charge students for these visits.