But a wave of colleges have announced new restrictions this year on the hours that adjunct, or part-time, faculty members are allowed to work.
UNC-Chapel Hill, Occidental and Swarthmore were the first in a wave of colleges and universities to be accused this year by students, recent alumni and faculty of mishandling sexual misconduct on campus.
Some of you may know that there is a wave of colleges and universities filing complaints with the Office for Civil Rights, claiming that their institutions are failing to protect women from sexual assault.
Just as earlier waves of college students were molded by long-running conflicts like the cold war, today's undergraduates have confronted an abundance of sudden, free-ranging calamity, both natural and not.
Ms. Kleinberger is one of a new wave of recent college graduates entering a career field that, like blogging and social media strategy, hardly existed a decade ago: environmental sustainability.
Experts began to notice the trend two years ago, when a wave of male college students accused of sexual assault cited Title IX in lawsuits claiming their rights were violated due to poor investigations. .
Like a wave of other colleges in recent months, Yale decided in November to switch from private-sector loans to the federal government's direct-lending program.
Wilshaw's proposed solutions include a national teaching service, to distribute young and talented teachers to areas where they are most needed, and improved efforts to provide vocational education from the age of 14 through a new wave of technical colleges.
