Student Retention

Like many presidents of private colleges in Wisconsin, Ripon College's Zach Messitte believes his campus can make the students the top priority.

The boiler unit at the Alabama A&M dorm that left students without hot water for more than two months has been replaced, school President Andrew Hugine said Wednesday.

“AH, you’re a professor. You must learn so much from your students.”

Program brings 200 parents to campus for overnight stays

The Amherst internship program, which annually spends about $500,000 endowed by alumni, is unusual.

Juan Zalapa, a child of Texas and Guadalajara, now studies the genetics of cranberries at UW-Madison.

There are too many worms. In a mid-Manhattan classroom, 20 applicants write their thoughts about going to community college on paper cutouts and stick them to a poster of a tree — multicolored, tapered leaves for hopes, square bits of trunk for strengths, squiggly worms for fears. The worms dominate.

The percentage of 25- to 34-year-olds in Washington with college degrees fell during the recession, according to a new government report.

Would allow private lenders back into market