Students

Colleges are pilloried each October by conservative media for being overly concerned about students offended by Halloween costumes. But do those stories miss the hands-off approach colleges often take?

Recalling a case at Oberlin College, Rutgers investigates a professor for anti-Semitic Facebook comments he says he can't be sure he made.

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.

Four scholars describe what institutions can do -- and should not do -- to enhance the well-mentored undergraduate experience.

A new viral video from a Cornell student captures one of the most persistent problems among freshmen -- loneliness.

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.

Amid concerns about an unusually high number of concussions -- and new guidelines from the institution’s insurer -- Kenyon suspends club rugby teams.

The emphasis on the uniqueness of each incoming class in annual lists of student worldviews perpetuates the assumption that the college population is mainly composed of recent high school graduates, writes Hollis Phelps.