It’s that time again- back to school season. According to the U.S. National Center for Education Statistics, 19.7 million students are enrolled in college this year many of them are choosing to live off-campus. However, along with R.A.s and shar

Courtney Steele went through a rigorous application, interview and training process for her job. She says her position requires her to be knowledgeable, accessible, authentic and enthusiastic. That position is campus tour guide for Southern Methodist U

It’s a simple act that almost all of us perform each day—we pick up our cell phones, send a text, make a call, or search for directions using an app; and it’s all a direct result of applied sciences. New York City is the futur

College campuses are notoriously safe zones for freedom of expression, but one of those expressions is becoming increasingly prohibited: smoking. Public smoking bans have been trickling across the country for years now, including one initiated in NYC

Students at schools across the country were encouraged to get up and leave class at noon today in a show of solidarity for the Occupy Wall Street movement. OccupyColleges.org listed 75 schools where, apparently, student walk-outs were scheduled. Offi

Cornell University and Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology --  have formed a partnership in their bid for New York City's proposed applied sciences campus. The duo's bid calls for a full-scale campus to be built on Roosevelt Island-- one o

 The Occupy Colleges movement, which first formed in the weeks after Occupy Wall Street descended upon Zuccotti Park, has been received with mixed reactions from different campuses. Occupy Colleges has called upon students through social networking t

Dean College officials took swift action and expelled nine students after some disturbing video surfaced of a fight that happened on the Franklin, Massachusetts campus in the middle of the day, apparently over a pair of shoes. It happened in front of the

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