College

Published
April 23, 2023

Faculty departures at UMaine Machias have professors on edge

Some worry that faculty lost because of a retirement incentive program will be replaced by lecturers and not fully credentialed professors.
Published
April 9, 2023

Five roommates. One fridge. Much drama.

Organizational experts and real roomies share strategies for dealing with leftovers, fridge cleanouts and who ate what.
Published
March 9, 2023

Jaded with education, more Americans are skipping college

Fewer college graduates could worsen labor shortages in fields from health care to information technology. For those who forgo college, it usually means lower lifetime earnings.
Published
January 8, 2023

Conservatives take aim at tenure for university professors

The trend reflects how conservative scrutiny of instruction related to race, gender, and sexuality has extended from schools to higher education.
Published
November 16, 2022

Yale and Harvard law schools abandon U.S. News college rankings

Two of the nation's top law schools are bowing out of the college rankings, claiming they are detrimental to their missions.
Published
October 29, 2022

Colleges dabble in real estate to help U.S. staff afford housing

The University of Vermont plans to invest $22 million in a deal with a local developer to build 295 units of housing, 100 of which would be ready for occupancy in summer 2024.
Published
October 24, 2022

Companies lure hourly workers with college tuition perks

Walmart, Amazon and Chipotle have made free higher education accessible for to more than 3 million U.S. workers, but critics question whether the move is glossing over deeper issues.
Published
October 6, 2022

Thousands receive erroneous acceptance emails from Boston law school

Northeastern University School of Law accidentally tells 4,000 former and current applicants they've been accepted.
Published
August 9, 2022

‘I didn’t really learn anything’: COVID grads face college

After the disruption of online learning, first-year college students are arriving on U.S. campuses unprepared for the demands of college-level work, experts say.
Published
July 25, 2022

Maine colleges scale back COVID-19 protocols even with more cases than previous two summers

The University of Maine System is no longer requiring boosters, but masks must still be worn in class.