By Stefanie Botelho. From town hall gatherings on the presidential campaign trail in New Hampshire to hearing rooms at state capitols and city halls across the country, identifying solutions to the problem of college affordability and student debt has become not just an educational challenge, but an economic one. More...

By Stefanie Botelho. Something strange is happening at America’s colleges and universities. A movement is arising, undirected and driven largely by students, to scrub campuses clean of words, ideas, and subjects that might cause discomfort or give offense. More...

By Stefanie Botelho. Hillary Clinton's sweeping plan for college affordability makes education a top-tier issue for her campaign, one designed to strike a chord with young voters. More...

By Stefanie Botelho. A little-known program provides free tuition to Native American students at Michigan’s public colleges and universities, but lawmakers have failed for years to fully fund the program. More...

By Stefanie Botelho. Hillary Clinton is directly courting Silicon Valley in her $350 billion plan to overhaul higher education. Clinton will reveal the full details of her plan at an upcoming talk in New Hampshire, but has released the major tenets to news outlets. More...

By Stefanie Botelho. Wisconsin legislators have begun quietly and unofficially discussing how the state's 42 public universities and colleges—the 26 UW System campuses and the 16 technical colleges—might be realigned to deal with dwindling state aid. More...

By Stefanie Botelho. Every year the frenzy to get into highly selective colleges seems to intensify, and every year the news media finds and fawns over the rare students offered admission to all eight Ivy League schools. More...

By Stefanie Botelho. Marvell Technology Group Ltd. must pay at least $278.4M for infringing Carnegie Mellon University patents over disk drives, and may have to pay more after a court threw out part of the original $1.17B verdict. More...