New research compares efforts to encourage students to re-enroll in college with information alone or with tuition waivers. The financial incentives appear to work better....

The narrative that students are going to college simply to get a job isn’t quite so tidy. The decision-making process is far more complicated....

More employers are using applicant tracking systems to hire employees. Some colleges are using new AI-based tools, like VMock, to help students keep up....

More information about what works in competency-based programs is needed to inform policy and encourage the growth of this promising form of postsecondary education, writes Charla Long....

Writing "I had the opportunity to ..." undermines even compelling cover letters, because it's imprecise, passive and diminishing....

Higher education is the great equalizer. Correction: a bachelor’s degree is the great equalizer. Graduate and professional degrees? Not so much, according to a forthcoming study in Social Science Research that seeks...

Step No. 4 is early exposure to career planning. Institutions need to provide students, early in their college experience, with relevant labor market data, including job sectors that are growing,...

More than a third of Ph.D. students have sought help for anxiety or depression caused by Ph.D. study, according to results of a global survey of 6,300 students from Nature. Thirty-six percent is...

In a nutshell, backward design tells you to start with the end in mind. Wherever you are in your studies or research, take a step back and think about what...

Adaptability is arguably one of the most important skills a job candidate can possess; certainly, it is a desirable one. But the idea that adaptability is a necessary skill that...