By Stefanie Botelho. There are lots of ways to rate these colleges, from the quality of academics to the party scene. We think an important—and often overlooked—metric is how healthy a university is. More...

By Stefanie Botelho. With the school year starting up again, NewsFeed looks back at some of the most unusual courses that have been offered at colleges and universities nationwide in recent years. More...

By Stefanie Botelho. Could a constitutional amendment help stabilize college funding in Virginia? 
That was a question debated Monday by presidents of public universities as they discussed proposed initiatives to support the goals of The Virginia Plan for Higher Education, which was approved last year by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia. More...

By Stefanie Botelho. In rolling out an ambitious higher education plan this month, Hillary Clinton put a genuine national dilemma-America's ballooning student debt crisis-at the center of the 2016 debate. What a refreshing contrast to her Republican opponents. More...

By Stefanie Botelho. After being in the works for nearly two decades, the Culinary Institute of the Pacific in Hawaii is slated to break ground within the next month after receiving the necessary building permits needed to begin construction. More...

By Stefanie Botelho. The federal government has begun to enforce the gainful employment rule for for-profit and career colleges. They are proposing that colleges where too many graduates can’t repay their loans should be forced out of the federal student aid program. If that kind of regulation were extended, without forcing colleges to publicize a fixed price and without removing their ability to bargain, you could still have competition based on productivity and outcomes. More...

By Stefanie Botelho. Some financial professionals reacted to my Aug. 19 Op-Ed article on private equity fees and university endowments by emphasizing that superior performance justifies superior fees. More...

By Stefanie Botelho. As K-State advances toward its goal of becoming a top 50 public research university by 2025, Swanson is overseeing the revitalization of the university’s building infrastructure, which will aid in the growth of the school’s research capabilities and improvement of learning environments. More...

By Stefanie Botelho. As summer began, Dan Akim, a junior at Manhattan’s ultracompetitive Stuyvesant High School, planned to attend debate camp, to study for the PSATs and to go on some family vacations. More...

By Stefanie Botelho. HBX, Harvard Business School's unique digital learning initiative, formally announced today the launch of HBX Live—a virtual classroom designed to reproduce the intimacy and synchronous interaction of HBS's famed case method in a digital environment. It enables participants from around the world to engage in a dynamic and highly interactive discussion under the direction of a Harvard Business School (HBS) professor. More...