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Beauty in Ugly Dorms
Daniel F. Chambliss writes that the best living spaces for new students have crowded hallways, no singles, and group bathrooms -- in other words, everything too many colleges are trying to replace.
Video Games Go Varsity
Should League of Legends, a popular video game, be a varsity sport? An Illinois university thinks so.
Changes to Campus Safety Rules
Education Department proposes new federal regulations that would require universities to report incidents of dating and domestic violence as well as sexual assault, and let accusers and the accused have advisers during disciplinary hearings.
Gender Gap on Safety
Female students are more likely to fear for their safety on campus than male students, and are less likely to think their colleges are doing enough to protect them, survey finds.
Stop Focusing on Failure
Too many colleges are focusing their analysis of student data to find the students likeliest to fail. Instead, they should identify which interventions will help which groups of students succeed, Dave Jarrat writes.
A Nudge to Renew
Text messages encouraging first-year community college students to fill out federal student aid form boost persistence to sophomore year, study finds.
Outgunned, for Now
What do faculty members do when their state permits guns on campus? Idaho illustrates the challenges.
Learning to Adapt
Experiments with adaptive learning spread, particularly at large for-profits, as technology takes a wide range of sometimes overlapping forms.