Nearly 1.5 million U.S. college students are expected to save an estimated $145 million in the 2017-18 academic year by using free textbooks from OpenStax, the Rice University-based publisher of open education resource materials. More...
Free year of Calif. community college
About half of the more than two million students attending California community college already receive free tuition based on their incomes. More...
Core principles emerge for free speech debates on campuses
From Middlebury College in Vermont to the University of California at Berkeley, the issue of free expression on campuses around the nation has ignited a firestorm of protest and controversy. More...
Free college made universities less equal — in England, at least
As more states and localities in the U.S. begin adopting free college programs, a new study of England’s college financing system hints at some surprising pitfalls to getting rid of tuition fees. More...
Berkeley students speak out about free speech
The University of California, Berkeley, has been at the center of the debate over free speech taking place on campuses across the country in recent months. The faculty is divided about how to interpret the First Amendment. Many students, too, feel conflicted. More...
Ohlone College pockets more than $9,000 from ‘free’ campus parking
Ohlone College has collected more than $9,000 in fees over the past three years for what’s supposed to be free Sunday parking at its Fremont campus, data from the school shows. More...
New effort underway to enroll more Calif. students tuition-free
California's community college system wants to boost the number of low-income students taking advantage of the state's free tuition option. To get the word out, the state is re-branding the program as the "Promise Grant." More...
How college students understand free speech
Here’s the problem with suggesting that upsetting speech warrants “safe spaces,” or otherwise conflating mere words with physical assault: If speech is violence, then violence becomes a justifiable response to speech. More...
When community college is free
Does free community college work? An experiment in Chicago suggests that the answer is yes. More...
Bannon, Yiannopoulos, Coulter headed to UC Berkeley for Free Speech Week
Protesters haven't made UC Berkeley the most hospitable place for conservatives lately, so it should make for a raucous few days when Steve Bannon, Milo Yiannopoulos and Ann Coulter show up there later this month for something called Free Speech Week. More...