By George Will. Syracuse University alumni are new additions to the lengthening list of persons who can stop contributing to their alma maters. The university has succumbed — after, one suspects, not much agonizing — to the temptation to indulge in progressive gestures. It will divest all fossil fuel stocks from its endowment. It thereby trumps Stanford, whose halfhearted exercise in right-mindedness has been to divest only coal stocks. Evidently carbon from coal is more morally disquieting than carbon from petroleum. More...

By Bonnie Miller Rubin. Despite the fact that they don't play football, basketball or soccer, Sergio da Silva and Armindo Goncalves were hotly recruited by Joliet Junior College.
The two young men arrived on campus in January, leaving behind their island home in the South Pacific _ a leap of faith, considering they are the first members of their respective families to ever board an airplane, much less pursue higher education. More...

By Brandon Busteed and Stephanie Kafka. A majority of U.S. adults, 61%, believe education beyond high school is available to anyone in America who needs it -- down from 67% who felt this way in 2013. However, only a small minority (21%) believe higher education is affordable. More...

By Lynn Arditi. Rhode Island officials who have proposed legislation to tie higher education funding to performance-based standards would be wise to look at the experience of Tennessee, national education experts said during conference here Tuesday. More...

By Diane Lederman. Filipe Carvalho will graduate from the University of Massachusetts with $20,000 in debt; Liam Gude has already amassed more than $62,000 in debt and that is growing. About four dozen students gathered outside the Student Union Thursday to talk about debt, to get the conversation started. More...

By Marketwatch. The bustling green quad, iconic buildings and blue sky that dot Columbia University’s campus oozed with the carefree vibes that characterize the quintessential first real day of spring at college earlier this month.
But for some students the trappings of this classic Ivy League experience can feel more isolating than liberating. More...

By Andrea Peyser. Vijay Chokal-Ingam is a member of a wealthy Asian Indian-American clan whose claim to fame is being the older brother of TV comedienne Mindy Kaling, the creator, producer, writer and star of “The Mindy Project.’’
Kaling, 35, told her only sibling that he will bring shame on the family, said Chokal-Ingam, 38. More...

By Erin Palmer. Students will soon be able to get private students loans from the largest credit union in the nation.
Navy Federal Credit Union announced on Monday that they will venture into private student lending, with student loans and the option to refinance loans from other private sources. More...