Authors discuss their new book on relationships in higher education

In Relationship-Rich Education: How Human Connections Drive Success in College (Johns Hopkins University Press), Peter Felten and Leo M. Lambert examine the human relationships that make higher education work. The simple act of a professor asking a student how she is doing can have a tremendous impact on the student's success. And the importance of the issue is not just relevant to a small, liberal arts colleges, but to large public universities, community colleges and online institutions....