Pop quiz: Who's more nervous about starting school this year, you or your child? If it's you, "it's a very normal response to have," says Matthew Stevenson, LSW, a child and family therapist in Philadelphia. We asked him how parents can send thei...
The term "transformative learning" has been buzzing around higher education since the early '80s, when Teachers College of Columbia professor Jack Mezirow founded his influential theory. Put very simply, transformative learning is an "aha!" moment. For...
For college students teetering on a financial tightrope, the issue of loans just became a lot more complicated and troublesome – $18 billion worth of trouble, to be exact – although some lawmakers and media outlets would have you beli...
In the wake of the Virginia Tech tragedy, nearly all large colleges and universities now have behavioral intervention teams: a half-dozen or more campus staff -- including mental health counselors -- charged with identifying at-risk students and develo...
In defense of the trimester ... Stuart J. Lipper is the dean of the graduate school of business administration at Fordham University in New York City. How did Fordham arrive at a trimester system? The MBA has always been the largest master's program ...