By Jeffrey J. Selingo. If you watch college sports on television, you’ve probably seen the ad for Enterprise Rent-A-Car featuring former college athletes working behind the counter at your nearby Enterprise location. Enterprise – which hires more entry-level college graduates annually than any other company in the U.S. — likes recruiting college athletes because they know how to work on teams and multitask. More...

By Akane Otani. Brown University has banned alcohol from being served at parties in fraternities and certain student residence halls for the spring semester. The crackdown, which has been nicknamed "Prohibition" by the campus newspaper's editorial board, was put in place this week after two fraternities were punished for having booze-fueled parties that led to reports of "non-consensual sexual conduct." Read more...

By Janet Lorin. Harvard’s haul, the largest ever in higher education, represents more than the entire endowments of all but about 70 U.S. colleges. Stanford came in No. 2, with $928 million, its third-biggest total, according to a survey by the New York-based Council for Aid to Education, which tracks university giving. Read more...

By Janet Lorin. Elite colleges are suddenly extending their application deadlines, but some say they're juicing their numbers and giving students false hope. Read more...

By Alia Wong. The U.S. and Cuba are poised to restore diplomatic relations, which may lead to big shifts in higher education.
A record-high 289,000 U.S. college students studied abroad during the 2012-13 school year, a little more than half of them in Europe. More...

By Derek Newton. Economists predict that colleges will soon become "unbundled" by the Internet. But that won't—and shouldn't—happen.
One of these entrepreneurs is Martin Smith, who wrote an essay last July for Quartz titled "What universities have in common with record labels". More...

By Kevin Carey. Has the student loan crisis already been solved?
This might seem an absurd question. Student loan debt is at a record high of $1.1 trillion, and the average undergraduate who borrows to attend school graduates nearly $30,000 in debt. Almost 20 percent of student borrowers are in default. More...

By Tara Siegel Bernard. President Obama is proposing a radical change to the 529 college savings plans held by millions of families, which would require those who use them to rethink their approach to college savings. More...

By Natasha Singer. Officials at the University of California, San Diego, had sparse information on the career success of their graduates until they set up a branded page for the university on LinkedIn a couple of years ago. More...

By Natasha Singer. EverTrue, a Boston start-up that applies modern social media analytics to the traditional field of higher-education fund-raising, was born out of the frustrations of Brent Grinna, a former captain of the Brown University football team. More...