Tag: College students
What is a 529 college savings plan? An economist explains
Robert H. Scott III, Monmouth University
The college savings plan known as a “529” is often touted as a...
I no longer grade my students’ work – and I wish...
Elisabeth Gruner, University of Richmond
I’ve been teaching college English for more than 30 years. Four years ago, I...
Colleges routinely fail to ask about new hires’ history of sexual...
Susan Fortney, Texas A&M University and Theresa Morris, Texas A&M University
When three graduate students sued Harvard University in...
Colleges accused of conspiring to make low-income students pay more
Robert Massa, University of Southern California
Sixteen universities – including six in the Ivy League – are accused in...
Taking out a student loan for your child can hurt your...
Thomas Korankye, University of Arizona
When people take out student loans for themselves, certain risks are involved. The debt...
Why COVID-19 must be included in safer sex messaging on college...
Tamra Burns Loeb, University of California, Los Angeles; Gail Wyatt, University of California, Los Angeles, and Michele R. Cooley-Strickland
Drop in students who come to the US to study could...
David L. Di Maria, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Driven largely by the global pandemic, the number of international...
How does smoking marijuana affect academic performance? Two researchers explain how...
Jason R. Kilmer, University of Washington and Christine M. Lee, University of Washington
In a trend that coincided with...
EXPLORING NATURE
Oldest known cremation in Africa poses 9,500-year-old mystery about Stone Age...
Jessica C. Thompson, Yale University; Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York), and Jessica Cerezo-Román, University of Oklahoma
