By Stefanie Botelho. When Abigail Covington, a recent high school graduate from Washington, D.C., got accepted into Syracuse University in central New York for the coming fall, she still needed $5,000 to afford her freshman year after receiving her financial aid package. More...

By Stefanie Botelho. Many observers would agree that a lot of universities today no longer champion liberal education but are little more than academic corporations that bequeath to their graduates a degree in debt. Such debts often reach six figures and require a lifetime to remit while the lenders receive millions in interest and enrich themselves. More...

By Stefanie Botelho. When the University of Massachusetts Lowell found itself in need of a new chancellor this year, after Martin T. Meehan left that post to lead the UMass system, trustees hired a top-notch recruitment firm to conduct an international search. More...

By Stefanie Botelho. That statement appears on page 52 of the 2014-2015 student handbook as part of a list of offenses — including dishonesty, lewdness, sensual behavior, adultery, sexual perversion, pornography, illegal use of drugs and drunkenness — that could get a student expelled from the private Christian academy in Greenville. 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. The Student Protection and Success Act would help address the interrelated problems of the questionable quality of many college degrees, the high number of students dropping out of college nationwide, and the high number of graduates and non-graduates who are not paying down their college loans. More...

By Stefanie Botelho. This week, I wrote about the pressures college students face and the related risk for depression and suicide. More...

By Stefanie Botelho. The White House plan announced last week to award federal education funding to prison inmates spotlighted a population that is often an afterthought in the national discussion on college access. More...

By Stefanie Botelho. Getting into an elite college has never been more cutthroat. Last year, Harvard's admissions rate dipped to a record low, with only 5.3 percent of applicants getting an acceptance letter. Stanford's rate was even lower, at 5.05 percent. 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...