More than 40% of higher education students are older than 22, and almost 70% are holding down jobs while taking courses, finds a new report on the "new majority" college student. Nontraditional students now constitute what a just-released report is calling ...

Laura Fehling (right), project coordinator for Northern Illinois University's Edible Campus, and volunteer Matthew McCanna-Molina, stand in one of the campus' gardens. The program provides free fruits and vegetables to students and community members.

For hundreds of thousands of people every year who dream of studying or researching in the United States, a student visa is the golden ticket. Now, for hundreds of people already at US colleges and universities, it is turning into a one-way ticket back to ...

A teacher said students used ChatGPT for an introductory essay in an ethics and technology class. Professor Megan Fritts shared her concerns on X, sparking a debate on AI's role in education. Educators are divided on AI's impact, with some feeling it ...

Teachers can equip students with the emotional resilience and self-regulation tools they need to navigate constructive criticism.

Students could bypass the United States for friendlier countries as the Trump administration attacks universities and revokes visas. Their loss could hurt schools and the economy. By Stephanie Saul and Troy Closson Xiaofeng Wan, a former admissions officer ...

The Trump administration has detained several university students recently. In recent weeks stories have emerged about college students whisked off campuses by immigration agents – targeted for deportation based on their writings or activism – and ...

Harvard is worried about going soft. Specifically, about grade inflation, the name for giving ever higher marks to ever more students. According to an “Update on Grading and Workload” from the school’s office of undergraduate education, released last ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Marybeth Gasman writes about racism, philanthropy, HBCUs & faculty. Nearly every day, I see an op-ed or social media post about students’ use of AI, most written by faculty. The use of ...

Although we surveyed only one college, our results align with similar studies, providing an emerging picture of the technology’s use in higher education. Between December 2024 and February 2025, we surveyed over 20% of Middlebury College’s student body ...

When Alden Jones taught her first back-in-person college class during the pandemic, something surprising happened. “Here I am, teaching the same class I’ve taught for 10 years, using the same book and asking the same questions, and my students were ...