My firstborn wanted to go far away for college. She didn’t come home often during her four years on the opposite side of the country. Once she left, I quickly became one of "those moms" who listened ...

Colleges and universities across the country are under extreme pressure, financially and politically. Their students are feeling stressed out, too.

As a college professor for three decades and the author of a brand-new book about college life, one thing I know for sure is that parents and students are in a perpetual dance of learning to let go.

Some U.S. college students are doing the once-improbable: blowing the whistle on classmates who break rules aimed at stemming ...