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, ...

While college first years just get to know Yale, those at the School of Medicine near the halfway point of their first 18 months of studies, known as the pre-clerkship phase. In the pre-clerkship ...

One of Smith’s strengths is its open curriculum, where students are agents of their curricular experience. Because writing is so central to intellectual growth and accomplishment, the college does ...

Ensure that students understand the academic standards for success at CU Boulder and familiarize them with the curricular, co-curricular and extra-curricular opportunities related to their interests.

Four Barnard faculty expressed to Spectator support for the college’s recent curriculum changes, which require Barnard first-years, beginning with the incoming class of 2029, to complete most of their ...

Starting next fall, first-years in the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences will be required to take part in a multidisciplinary and community-building academic experience through either FOCUS or ...

Penn’s College of Arts and Sciences introduced a new pilot curriculum for first-year students this fall, aiming to provide a broad liberal arts education through an integrated set of courses. The new ...

Zora M. Wolfe, Katia Ciampa and Ashley DiRienzo share three ways to help remove some of the barriers students seeking Ph.D.s confront. Doctoral attrition rates are notoriously high—they’ve held steady ...