Many disciplines have struggled to update their introductory sequences for current relevance. Sociology took a different approach starting in 2019, and the results offer a model that other fields are now studying.
Transfer credit policies have always been opaque. A new initiative across 64 universities is making the process more transparent and consistent, with real effects on student costs.
Major choice and lifetime earnings are correlated, but the relationship is weaker and more local than most college rankings suggest. New labor data clarifies what actually predicts financial outcomes.
A liberal arts college in upstate New York spent four years rebuilding its early warning system. The results offer a template for other small institutions facing similar retention pressures.
Several universities are piloting accelerated four-year programs compressed into three. Early data suggests the model works for a specific kind of student, and not for others.
Tennessee's Reconnect program is the largest adult community college tuition initiative in the United States. Six years of data offer a candid view of what works and what does not.
More students than ever are changing majors, often more than once. New data suggests the pattern is not indecision but a rational response to information they did not have at admission.
Faculty across disciplines report that students arrive at university unable to sustain attention through complex texts. The data is sobering, and the response is uneven.
FAFSA completion rates vary enormously across high schools serving similar populations. The interventions that move the needle and the schools that ignore them.
The honors thesis is one of the most demanding undergraduate experiences. What students get from completing one and what employers and graduate schools actually do with it.
