The question seems straightforward enough: “During the current school year, to what extent have your courses challenged you to do your best work?” Which students pushed themselves academically, and at ...

What the blazes is academic rigor? President Michael Adams and his aides in the University bureaucracy are trumpeting new policies and amendments to academic practices with increasing frequency, each ...

International aid programs are often haphazard and ineffective tools to battle global poverty, and would benefit greatly if administrators applied academic rigor to decisions about what types of aid ...

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Ask any first year how their courses are going, and you’ll probably hear about how challenging their writing seminar, engineering prerequisites, or first departmental class is. Princeton prides itself ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The environment created by Covid-19 did not allow for face-to-face instruction, forcing educators to transition courses online. While Covid-19 ...

Taking challenging coursework in middle school and high school not only prepares students for success in college but also is the best predictor of both college readiness and college success, says ...

Students who complain that their college courses are too difficult may have found a new friend in one Purdue engineering professor who is claiming that the concept of academic rigor merely exists to ...

When reviewing applicants’ high school transcripts, college admissions officers look for two main traits: a course load that shows academic rigor and a GPA that demonstrates academic mastery. However, ...

The Poets&Quants recognition builds on a series of recent national rankings for Lerner’s online MBA program. In January 2025, ...