BERKELEY, Calif. — The occupation of a campus building at the University of California, Berkeley, in a protest over fee hikes and budget cuts ha...
AP | MICHAEL R. BLOOD | Posted 11.20.2009 | Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES — The governing board of the University of California approved a $2,500 student fee increase Thursday after two days of tense campus...
Karen Stabiner | Posted 10.30.2009 | Living
The biggest increase in enrollment is at two-year community colleges. Enrollment at four-year public and private colleges is pretty static. Cost may be starting, slowly, to trump prestige.
Karen Stabiner | Posted 10.27.2009 | Living
Welcome to the world of financial aid applications, in which nameless, faceless employees get to review information you probably have never told even your closest friends.
HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 10.26.2009 | Business
While law school tuition has skyrocketed over the past 15 years, federal loan limits have remained stagnant, putting more pressure on students to take...
Posted 10.21.2009 | Business
This fall, as unemployment surged and the economy continued to hurt, students at both public and private colleges across the country saw a significant...
Don McNay | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business
You are not doing your children any favors by not allowing them to grow up. I'm OK with parents helping children through college (in four years, not forty), but after that they are on their own.
AP | JUSTIN POPE | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business
With the economy struggling, parents and students dared to hope this year might offer a break from rising college costs. Instead, they got another sha...
Karen Stabiner | Posted 09.28.2009 | Living
Test-taking strategies: If there's a consensus on anything, it's that your child doesn't want to spend valuable time reading the instructions for the first time on the day of the test. Before you pay for sample tests in a room at a prep center, or proctored by a tutor, consider a few free sample tests at home.
Rohit Chopra | Posted 09.24.2009 | Business
Here in America, could we better protect the environment, reduce crime, and increase school performance if the poor had fewer children? Maybe.
New York Times | RON LIEBER | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business
If you have paid a college tuition bill recently, perhaps the sticker shock has abated and your children have been good enough to friend you on Facebo...
Don McNay | Posted 10.16.2009 | Business
Everyone has dreams and desires but usually keep them hidden, back in the recesses of their minds. The lottery question gets those dreams and desires out in the open, on the front burner.
Manisha Thakor | Posted 08.02.2009 | Business
For years the subliminal messaging we received was that "no price tag is too high for a quality higher education." It may be time to ask if that graduation cap tassel is really worth the financial hassle.
Washington Post | Valerie Strauss | Posted 06.23.2009 | Home
In an era when college students commonly take longer than four years to get a bachelor's degree, some U.S. schools are looking anew at an old idea: sl...
Michael F. Easley | Posted 05.04.2009 | Politics
We can't afford to see college as an option or a luxury for some; it has to be our goal for all.
Amy Goldwasser | Posted 05.25.2009 | Living
Far from being the spoiled generation, twentysomethings are finding the simple things their parents were able to do (like moving out, like newly married couples being able to buy a home) impossible.
New York Times | KATE ZERNIKE | Posted 04.30.2009 | Business
In the bid for a fat envelope this year, it may help, more than usual, to have a fat wallet. Facing fallen endowments and needier students, many co...
Max Fraad Wolff | Posted 03.29.2009 | Business
We need public goods spending and we need it now. Without social glue, we risk more of what we have seen.
Jim Jaffe | Posted 03.08.2009 | Business
A political question of the moment is whether taxpayers concerned about subsidizing bloated salaries on Wall Street will feel an equal discomfort about playing a similar role in medicine and higher education.
Jason Rosenbaum | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics
Conservatives will be pushing for increased tax cuts for business and the rich, including tax cuts that benefit multi-national companies with large foreign holdings.
Brian Farkas | Posted 01.18.2009 | Politics
Writing separate but nearly identical letters to their respective communities, countless college presidents across the county have recently admitted: "We're out of money."
Chi-Town Daily News | Peter Sachs | Posted 01.02.2009 | Chicago
City Colleges students can expect to pay 10 percent more on their tuition bills starting this summer. The increase is the first in two years, and tui...
Ben Redmond | Posted 11.30.2008 | Politics
How can I consider contributing to any economic revival when I will be struggling to pay off my education for years to come?
George Spyros | Posted 11.23.2008 | Entertainment
Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel made a stop in Las Vegas recently to woo college students for Barack Obama. Produced by Michael Gonzalez of Nevada...
Crain's Chicago Business | Lorene Yue | Posted 11.17.2008 | Chicago
(Crain's) -- Benedictine University is freezing the cost of tuition for its current undergraduates for the next two years in an effort to help student...
AP | MICHAEL R. BLOOD | Posted 11.21.2009 | Business