The College Board is making massive changes to its policies in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The College Board is making massive changes to its policies in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Read Full Story

The fall college semester will not be a walk in the park. Nevertheless, if you are a freshly graduated high schooler, take a deep breath and consider all your options. As colleges extend their commitment deadline for the fall semester due to uncertainty surrounding COVID-19, I wanted to offer recent high school graduates (and by default their parents) some frank advice on starting college this fall. Read Full Story

One U.S. university leads the pack.

Bed Bath & Beyond has launched a new College From Home section of its website for the millions of college students getting ready to learn from home in the fall. Concert pianist Robin Spielberg is elbow-deep in paint—deep purple for the accent wall and lavender for the others—as she turns daughter Valerie Kosson’s childhood bedroom and the adjacent guest room into a Lebanon Valley College classroom. Read Full Story

COVID-19 will mean the end of the traditional college experience for many. Here are nine ways to reimagine higher education for the future. Every May 1, millions of students and their families celebrate “National Decision Day” by submitting final college and university decisions. I still remember that overwhelming feeling of possibility nearly two decades later. Read Full Story

Lessons you can learn from Google's decision to take on college.

Anonymous users will be blocked from Google Meet video conferences held by schools, colleges, and universities in a bid to stop pranksters disrupting lessons.

Lessons you can learn from Google's decision to teach college.

Unlike most of the world's democracies, in the US the president is not elected by popular vote. Is that how it works.

College Bound Dorchester has started offering stipends to give former gang members a small basic income so they don’t have financial worries while finishing their education. Now it’s expanded its stipend program to 125 families in need. Four years ago, Naomie Charles, who grew up in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood, started college—a milestone for the mother of two who had experienced homelessness, incarceration, abusive relationships, and other obstacles that had long held her back. Now 32, Charles is set to graduate from Southern New Hampshire University, and though the coronavirus pandemic has changed what that graduation will look like, the people at College Bound Dorchester, the Boston-based nonprofit that supported her throughout her education, will still be there, as they always have. Read Full Story