First-year composition courses, which are required of incoming students at many colleges and universities, lack cachet. No student gets excited about a comp class, and the faculty who teach these ...

Princeton continues to enhance its groundbreaking financial aid program as it welcomes a first-year class with the largest-ever number of lower-income students. The financial aid enhancements reflect ...

Barnard will implement “Foundations @ Barnard: A New Era for First-Year Learning,” ushering in a new curriculum that will ensure Barnard first-year students take the majority of their classes, ...

UNC-Chapel Hill will make space for hundreds more students than usual in this fall’s first-year class, Chancellor Lee Roberts announced Wednesday — the first step in a plan to eventually increase the ...