In what is now an annual ritual, a new crop of college graduates has been crowned the most indebted class in American history.

Students in the class of 2013 graduated with an average debt load of $30,000, according to an analysis by Mark Kantrowitz, publisher of FinAid.org. Adjusted...

Elizabeth City State University Chancellor Willie Gilchrist announced on Friday that he will resign his post, as a state investigation continues into allegations that the school failed to report numerous campus crime incidents.

The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation is currently investigating the

British comedian Eric Idle took a swipe at former President George W. Bush and the Second Amendment as he counseled graduates in his commencement address at Whitman College on Sunday.

"No body gets irony anymore, as we are now living in the post-ironic age," Idle said in his speech. "Once...

Comedian and writer Anders Holm had some spot-on advice for graduates of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Saturday.

Holm graduated from UW-Madison in 2003 with a bachelor's in history, and was chosen by students there to be the commencement speaker this year. He's best known for...

Comedian Stephen Colbert thanked the University of Virginia during his speech Saturday at its 2013 valedictory exercises for inviting him to be the keynote speaker, which he took to mean he had been awarded an additional honor.

"I believe that means I am this year's valedictorian, and I am as...

WASHINGTON -- Congressional Democrats have pounced on a nonpartisan government report showing the Department of Education this year is forecast to earn a record $51 billion profit off student borrowers, denouncing the Obama administration and urging for structural reforms.

Members of the House of Representatives including George Miller...

Although it's exciting to welcome graduates entering the real world, a commencement can feel like it lasts forever.

In fact, hours of work go into a commencement. Emory University caught seven hours of footage Monday and created a two minute time-lapse video, aided by remote-operated cameras.

According...

The Georgia Institute of Technology announced Tuesday that it will offer an online master's degree for less than $7,000 through a partnership with Udacity, an online course provider.

The pilot program for a master's in computer science from Georgia Tech, a public college, will cost students...

Yale University faces a fine of $165,000 from the U.S. Department of Education for "serious and numerous" Clery Act violations, including failing to report forcible sex offenses.

Yale failed to report a total of four forcible sex offenses in its campus crime statistics for 2001 and 2002,

Florida Atlantic University president Mary Jane Saunders has resigned.

Saunders announced her resignation, effective immediately, in a letter submitted to the FAU Board of Trustees late Tuesday.

"There is no doubt the recent controversies have been significant and distracting to all members of the University community," Saunders wrote....

U.S. News & World Report announced Tuesday it was moving two colleges to the "unranked" category

Robert Morse, director of data research for U.S. News & World Report, wrote in a blog post that University of Mary Hardin-Baylor in Texas and York College of Pennsylvania both recently revealed...

Acclaimed actor Martin Sheen dished out some jokes when he gave the commencement address at La Roche College in Pennsylvania on May 4, but he didn't shy away from politics either.

Sheen is well-known for playing President Josiah Bartlet on television show "The West Wing,"...

Most universities book a well-known political figure or celebrity to speak at their commencement speaker to get the public's attention. The University of Arizona got ours with a spectacular light show.

UA's undergraduate commencement held Friday screened a video mashup that featured photos of students edited together with scenes from...

The Berklee College of Music celebrated music legends Willie Nelson, Carole King and Annie Lennox during its commencement at the Boston school on Saturday.

Lennox, a singer and member of the duo Eurythmics, was Berklee's commencement speaker, addressing the largest graduating class in the college's history -- 1,050.

When Penn State University's Graham Spanier was fired as president of the institution following the Jerry Sandusky-sex abuse scandal in November 2011, he left office with nearly $3 million in compensation for that academic year, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education's annual survey...

Few college students say their school is doing a good job addressing campus sexual assault and harassment, according to a nationwide survey by the volunteer group Students Active For Ending Rape.

When asked to grade their school's sexual violence policies, 9.8 percent of students gave their college an...

I'm trying to decide if Joel Stein views millennials as an entire generation of Cher Horowitz's transported into the 21st century.

That's as much as I can tell from his latest piece in Time, titled "The Me Generation," and displayed on the magazine's cover as "The Me Me...

A student loan company responded Thursday to a leaked email infographic that seemed to suggest that that the only way to not be sad and default on student debt was to follow the company on social media.

The infographic was delivered via email from Great Lakes in April,

Households struggling under the weight of student debt burdens moved one step closer to a lifeline Wednesday, after the federal consumer regulator suggested that Washington policymakers consider government-initiated loan workout and refinancing schemes for distressed borrowers.

The policy options, culled from more than 28,000 comments on a Consumer...

The U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights will investigate Occidental College over allegations the Los Angeles-based school failed to properly look into and adjudicate claims of sexual harassment and sexual violence on campus, according to a letter sent by the OCR and obtained by The Huffington Post.

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