The Ivies and other elite universities are engaged in a bidding war for low-income students. Or at least they're engaged in a war to see who can capture better headlines. Harvard just revealed it...

As a college professor, my classes are filled with top-caliber athletes: football players, baseball players, cheerleaders, and more. By far, the athletes with the most grueling training schedule are...

In the old days, students often narrowed their college choices to a few, or even one, college that they were passionate about. (In fact, I applied to only one place myself.) These days, that's...

Everyone who had LSU, UCLA, Florida and george Mason as your Final Four raise your hand. I'm waiting.... Put down that hand, liar. An 11-seed in the Final Four. No one-seed, which hasn't...

(Source: Kenyon College) Meet the new minority group on campus: men. Women now constitute 56 percent of college enrollments nationwide, causing admissions officials angst. What to do? According to a...

(Source: University of Pennsylvania) Following the lead of Stanford, MIT, Harvard, Princeton and others, the University of Pennsylvania announced its new policy of replacing loans with grants for...

Many students do not realize that they will lose their financial aid if they are ever convicted of possessing or selling drugs: something that has happened to nearly 200,000 university students so...

(Source: UCLA) Applying to college can be emotionally taxing. It can also be financially taxing, especially if you apply to several institutions. Such is increasingly the case, according to a New...

We've all suffered through those "Girls Gone Wild" video commercials, perhaps even dreading catching a glimpse of one of our students (or of ourselves!) in the promos. Many college women...

(Source: Stanford University) The rich may get richer, but the poor go free. That's the goal at Stanford, which has introduced a policy of waiving tuition for families making less than $45,000...

(Source: Tulane University) If you find yourself watching the NCAA basketball tournament this week, you'll likely witness the debut of a new ad campaign aimed at educating the public about the...

Poor, poor grandmothers: every semester, dozens of them suddenly pass away, most often around the time of a big test or when a major paper is due. Of course, grandmothers truly do pass away, and...

With March Madness upon us once again, we're all busy filling out tournament brackets for office pools and online contests. The tournament begins this week, likely bringing with it the usual fare...

(Source: AP) Yet another article from the "shocker" file. It seems business schools cater to (surprise!) businesses, and in doing so have started to run more like businesses. Revolutionary....

Any cheerleader knows how difficult--and often, dangerous--the sport can be. There has likely never been a cheerleader who hasn't suffered at least a strain or sprain. Many have suffered far...

Lawyers and university officials have long fought a losing battle: to have the option to choose whether or not military recruiters can appear on campus. The Supreme Court recently ruled that any...

Say so long to the high school counselor. Students and parents are turning to the latest must-have college admission tool: the paid consultant. Sometimes racking up fees in the thousands of dollars,...