By Andrew Kreighbaum. Study finds four-year colleges fail to meet federal standards for disclosing costs on their websites. More...
Rubio Plans Bill to End Loan Interest Rates
By Andrew Kreighbaum. Senator Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican, said Thursday that he plans to introduce legislation that would eliminate interest rates on federal student loans. More...
Data Show No Action on Borrower-Defense Claims
By Andrew Kreighbaum. The total number of pending borrower-defense claims has continued to balloon in size over the past year. But the Education Department hasn't approved or denied any claims since June 2018, according to data released last week to the office of Senator Patty Murray, the ranking Democrat on the Senate education committee. More...
Few Lessons Learned on For-Profit Closures
By Andrew Kreighbaum. As Dream Center collapses, Trump administration's oversight of massive for-profit college deal under scrutiny. Critics ask why more protections weren't sought after purchase of Argosy and Art Institutes chains. More...
Argosy on Brink of Closure
By Andrew Kreighbaum. The for-profit college chain will shut down today, affecting several thousand students, if a new buyer is not secured -- a scenario observers say has small chances of happening. More...
New Pick to Lead Office of Federal Student Aid
By Andrew Kreighbaum. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announced Monday that Mark A. Brown will lead the Office of Federal Student as chief operating officer. More...
If Academics Ruled Basketball (Women's Edition)
By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. How would the NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament look if success in the classroom mattered more than talent on the court? Here's the annual Academic Performance Tournament. More...
A Bookend Experience
By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. Macalester College's graduating class will hear a commencement speaker this year who also addressed them during their freshman year. Officials say the encore speech brings the students’ educational journey full circle. More...
Sexism and Sexual Violence in Campus Tech Groups
By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. The public focuses on fraternities when it comes to rape culture, but a recent incident at Berkeley illustrates how other kinds of student clubs can be hotbeds of sexual violence. More...
Appeals Court Allows Kansas State Rape Suit to Proceed
By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. A federal appeals court will not toss out a lawsuit by two Kansas State University students who alleged that administrators refused to investigate their rapes and other reports of sexual assault in off-campus fraternity houses. More...