Talent & Education

Students choose colleges and universities for all kinds of reasons. Here’s one way to view what they’re getting for their money.

It’s been a long, contentious battle to reform Michigan’s teacher evaluation system. Now, the hard work begins.

A college degree is more critical, yet more expensive, for Michigan families. At a Center for Michigan summit Monday, the governor and university chiefs clashed over how to make college more affordable.

Cyber schools are all about technology. But in a field of struggling competitors, one Michigan cyber school is succeeding with an old-fashioned idea: person-to-person interaction.

Enrollment in Michigan’s online charter schools is exploding. But are kids learning?

Michigan universities have invested heavily in programs to curb dangerous drinking, with mixed results. Experts suggest ways that both schools and lawmakers in Lansing can help keep students safer. Meanwhile, a model for success emerges in Nebraska.

Game day: Bridge looks at college drinking DAY 1 A Game Day diary In campus hospitals, beds full of drinking casualties Stone-cold sober on game day? It really happens Slideshow: UofM game day drinking Slideshow: MSU game day drinking DAY 2 What we can do to reduce extreme college drinking How one Nebraska school cut […]

Universities are spending millions to curb dangerous drinking. Yet blackout partying persists in a puke-and-rally culture. Bridge investigates what works, and what doesn’t, in the ongoing battle to keep college students safe.

Scenes from the first home football game in Ann Arbor, Sept. 12. Students, fans and alumni turned out on a crisp fall day to party.