U Penn: Large Class Sizes and Inaccessibility of Profs
I find that some parents are stuck on reputation and prestige when they walk into my office and start talking about colleges. I try to remind them that they are
December 9, 2008
I find that some parents are stuck on reputation and prestige when they walk into my office and start talking about colleges. I try to remind them that they are
Sometimes peer pressure is a good thing. I read an article the other day in Inside Higher Ed that Baylor University had implemented a policy to pay admitted students to
Often when I visit a college campus, I sit down with students to discuss their experiences. Such discussions initially unnerve the students (“Who are you, and what do you want?”).
The other day the New York Times featured an article on the resurgence of the City University of New York (CUNY), with special focus on its honors college, which has
When I visited Austin College last fall, I was really impressed by this little gem of a campus north of Dallas, Texas. The students I met were enthralled with the
Today’s issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education features a commentary by John F. Burness, a former administrator at Duke, Cornell, and the University of Illinois. Burness critiques the rankings
A brief visit to New Mexico Highlands University, in Las Vegas, NM, was actually my second visit to the campus. I walked around the campus back in 1990 when I
I took a spin around the campus of Northern Arizona University a few days ago. Until this trip, I wasn’t very familiar with the geography of Arizona, and Flagstaff was
I spent an afternoon recently exploring the Arizona State University Campus in Tempe, Arizona. I found the campus to be surprisingly compact, given the size of its student body (over