As online education grows increasingly popular, brick-and-mortar institutions are turning to new state-of-the-art facilities to help recruit and retain students. While recruitment remains a priority, rising costs associated with these buildings is an increasingly concern for educational leaders.

Active learning labs are great for bringing together instructors and students for classes on popular languages, such as French, Spanish and German. For students interested in less common languages, the spaces might not work as well, according to Felix Kronenberg, director of the Center for Language Teaching Advancement at Michigan State University. "How do we […]

Black and Latino students' college attendance rates are rising, while the overall percentage of white college students is declining. Yet you won't see much evidence of that on a tour of selective colleges, says Martin Van Der Werf, associate director for editorial and postsecondary policy at the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce […]