Though 20% of public school students in the United States live in rural areas, many college campuses either don’t track their populations of rural students or find the number to be low. The Small Town ...

Duke joined 31 other elite institutions in the Small Town And Rural Students College Network, an organization that aims to support students from rural areas through their college admissions process at ...

Since its founding last year, the Small Town and Rural Students (STARS) College Network—a coalition of 16 public and private institutions—has sent representatives to 1,100 small-town high schools in ...

PRINCETON, N.J. — As college students around the country kick off a new school year, one national organization is working to change prevailing campus attitudes that accept casual sexual encounters as ...

This weekend, a group of students will gather in a Kresge Hall classroom — not to study for a midterm — instead they will learn about the Chicago Transit Authority. This initiative is part of Rural ...

For many students, the path to the nation’s top universities is filled with hurdles — long applications, testing requirements and confusing financial aid options. A new partnership aims to change that ...

Amiee Lessard thought by signing up with The College Network three years ago she was enrolling in a program affiliated with Albany-based Excelsior College's nursing program. And Lessard believed that ...