5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (903+ words) Syracuse University is closing or halting enrollment in about 20 percent of its academic programs,...only 258 students, of the more than 20,000 at Syracuse, were enrolled in the programs that are ending,...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (787+ words) Instead of spending the final weeks of summer preparing for her freshman year at Howard University, Yasmine Payano had to scramble after she was told weeks before the semester was to begin that she no longer had a spot in…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (699+ words) During my sophomore year at Central Connecticut State University, I considered transferring to another college. It had nothing to do with the level of education, but more so with my social life. I had friends at my original, smaller school,…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (464+ words) Gideon Sobek graduated from Lehigh University in the spring with a bachelor’s degree in economics. He arrived at college wanting to major in architecture, but he let go of that pretty quickly because he thought it was too much of…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (788+ words) Christine Liverpool considered sending her daughter, Cadence, to a private day care center in Queens this fall, but it was too expensive at $1,500 per month. She decided to keep her at home with relatives while she works as a New…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago   (678+ words) The trustees of Cornell University on Friday blamed a small group of students for an incident last month in which the university’s president, Michael Kotlikoff, bumped his vehicle into them after a debate about the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians....

3+ mon, 4+ day ago   (685+ words) On a recent weekday morning, I was struggling to wake my 16-year-old so she wouldn’t miss her first class. I had used all of my morning wake-up tricks, from nudging her to flipping on the lights and even summoning our…...