The author (right) receiving a quick lesson in welding at Texas State Technical College. With summer just around the corner, many families with rising high school seniors have college tours planned.

This essay is excerpted from a new Chronicle special report, “The Research Driven University,” available in the Chronicle Store. T he Biden administration’s CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 was more than ...

From online learning to artificial intelligence, colleges worldwide have grappled with how best to deploy technology to help their students succeed—especially nontraditional students, who might opt to ...

“Connectivity is my hammer,” sa i d Robert Metcalfe, recipient of the Turing Award for inventing, standardizing and commercializing ethernet. “Everything looks like a connectivity problem.” His ...

Texas State Technical College Provost Bryan Bowling has turned a lifelong love of tinkering into a role where he oversees the ...

Wisconsin's system of 16 technical colleges has mostly recouped students it lost as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, bringing in about the same number of students last fall as in 2019. Data from the ...