MINNEAPOLISāWhen Eric Kaler became president of the University of Minnesota last year, he pledged to curb soaring tuition by cutting administrative ...
More students are going to college than ever before, but states have continued to cut back on funding for public colleges, and that's leading to some ...
President Obama's acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention touched on education Thursday night and touted his efforts to increase Pell ...
Students should be more conscious of the obligations they are about to take on, and if we are not comfortable with what our institutions are offering and at what cost, it is on us to make that change.
For this generation, student loan debt dwarfs any other debt. The national average student loan debt is above $25,000 -- 47 percent higher than a decade ago -- with many students at elite institutions graduating with debt in six figures.
The Beatles wrote "Revolution" in 1968. Yet, it remains the dialogue of our time. In fact, that dialogue has never been as apposite as it was in recent days as college students at U.C. Berkeley collided with campus police.
As states continue to slash higher education budgets, public colleges and universities struggle to find sources for funding -- and many end up hiking ...
In the shadow of our faltering economy, America's students must cope with a host of issues: college affordability, mounting debt, unemployment. Attend...
College may actually be comparatively cheaper now than before the recession, the Washington Post reports.
According to a new survey by the National A...
Three of the country's prominent universities are hiking their prices.
The University of Virginia's tuition is set for a double-digit rise, according...
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Nearly 150,000 votes later, we have a winner: Amanda Litman, the editor of North By Northwestern! Amanda has traveled with us to Washingto...
Next year, MIT says, the all-inclusive cost of tuition, room, and board will top $50,000. What would happen if MIT made an executive decision that, by...
The reasons why the numbers never add up in higher education is that universities and colleges use a false and misleading method to determine the cost of undergraduate instruction, to the detriment of us all.
The recession has reached the executive suites of the nation's public universities and colleges, putting a stop to a string of large annual pay increa...
Recent budget cuts threaten a severe diminution of the status of the University of California, long considered the nation's -- perhaps the world's -- premier research university.
The fast-growing group of millionaire private college and university presidents hit a new record in recent years, and it's likely more college leaders...