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 ...

Every first-year at the Rhode Island School of Design enrolls in the Experimental and Foundation Studies program. But while students praise the experimental nature of the courses, many voiced concerns ...

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 ...