Professors have been telling their students that they care about them personally, and the university is promoting counseling services.
A new company in New York is offering coaching, at a price, for college graduates who are struggling to find a job.
After years of strained relations with Schenectady, N.Y., Union College has taken steps to embrace, and help revitalize, its hometown.
In New Jersey and elsewhere, schools are experimenting with individualized learning plans that are intended to help students create career goals.
Marissa Pagli, a freshman at Manhattanville College, was strangled by her mother, who then tried to kill herself, the police said.
The body of the victim, a woman, was found after the police received a 911 call from security officials. Her death was being investigated as a homicide.
Gov. David A. Paterson wants to let boards of trustees, not the Legislature, decide how much to charge students and how to spend the money.
Seeking to address an imbalance in U.S. medicine, nearly two dozen medical schools have opened or are set to open.
An academic sociologist, he established the college in response to Jews who felt adrift and marginalized in American college culture.