Recently, I had the pleasure of attending the annual conference of the Association for Continuing Higher Education. This organization is dedicated to the success of students who don’t follow the ...
Colleges will ask what about your experiences mattered to you and why. Write down the details now while they're fresh in your ...
Oliver Friedfeld (COL ’15) is the founder of the Treehouse Project, which seeks to broaden student’s perspectives about college life. As founder of the Treehouse Project, Oliver Friedfeld (COL ’15) is ...
It’s time to re-read James Simon Kunen’s The Strawberry Statement, a 19-year-old Columbia undergraduate’s “wry and clever” firsthand account of his fellow Ivy League revolutionaries and the 1968 ...
Earlier this month at Truesdell Elementary, in the last five minutes of one of my classes, I called for my students' attention. “Class, class!” I called. “Yes, yes,” they responded in unison. “I have ...
At countless U.S. colleges, angry students have threatened to disrupt their campuses in confrontations with administrators on the issue of student power. But not at the University of Pennsylvania, ...