Purdue Engineering students in West Lafayette begin in the First-Year Engineering (FYE) Program, where they are placed in teams to learn collaboration, communication, math, science, design and problem ...

The College of Arts and Sciences will pilot a new curriculum for first-year students in the 2025-26 academic year. The pilot program — called College Foundations — seeks to introduce a cohort of 120 ...

Orientation at Boston College — a time when incoming students register for classes, meet peers and learn about campus resources — lasts three days. The school year at this Jesuit Catholic university ...

You’d be surprised how many young people can’t read this. One of its conclusions tells the sad tale. “Between 2020 and 2025, the number of students whose math skills fall below high school level has ...

National college retention and persistence rates improved again last year, but part-time students persisted at a substantially lower rate than full-time enrollees. More than 77% of the millions of ...

In its first-ever analysis of fall-to-spring persistence among first-year college students, the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center found that 84 percent of incoming students in 2023 ...

Yale College in August welcomed 1,640 new first-year students to New Haven as members of the Class of 2029. They were joined by 34 new transfer students and 28 new adult students matriculating through ...

Participation in extracurricular activities and campus events is tied to student retention, but a significant number of students don’t get plugged in. A 2024 survey by Inside Higher Ed and Generation ...

The Maryland State Board of Education passed updates Tuesday to literacy and math standards for the first time in 15 years and held its annual election of officers during the first monthly meeting of ...