By Stefanie Botelho. College is expensive, and the price of higher education continues to rise. Degrees are not cheap, folks.
This month, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York released a study that revealed that since the government started giving out larger student loans and grants during the 2007-08 school year, colleges have raised tuition. More...

By Stefanie Botelho. Kindsey Pierce hopes to grow her Tipton County farm from 75 sheep to more than 300.
But doing that, while paying off her $40,000 in student loans, is a challenge. More...

By Tim Goral. The college presidency has become a high-risk occupation. All the old challenges - fundraising, strategic planning, managing enrollment, protecting students - are all still there, along with newer trials: navigating demographic shifts and flat-lining family incomes, ensuring access, assuring compliance to growing governmental regulation, and understanding the absurdity of various rankings including those promised by the U.S. Department of Education. The list goes on and on. More...

By Stefanie Botelho. For people with disabilities, college can seem a distant dream. But a new program at a Minnesota university hopes to change that, at least for some young people, this fall. More...

By Stefanie Botelho. President Obama’s plan for free community college tuition came a step closer to becoming law on Wednesday with the unveiling of a draft Senate bill outlining its key elements. More...

By Stefanie Botelho. It’s a peaceful time on Massachusetts college campuses. Prospective students tour excitedly, anxious parents in tow. Some incoming freshmen arrive for summer orientations. Faculty travel or do research in quiet labs and offices on lazy, leafy campuses of meticulously maintained red brick and ivy. More...

By Stefanie Botelho. Led by vice chancellors, Dutch universities have recently announced plans for a country-wide boycott of the academic publisher Elsevier. This boycott has the potential to be a significant game changer in the relationship between the research community and the world’s largest academic publisher. More...

By Stefanie Botelho. Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) and Rep. Bobby Scott (D-Va.) will introduce legislation Wednesday to make community college free for low-income students, fulfilling a promise made by President Barack Obama in his State of the Union address this year. More...

By Stefanie Botelho. A mainland university has launched an e-commerce platform to sell new graduates to prospective employers, reflecting the worrisome downturn in the country's job market. More...

By Stefanie Botelho. The House of Representatives seems determined to stall this country's innovation pipeline for generations to come. Two pieces of recently passed legislation — the America Competes Act of 2015 (H.R. 1806) and the Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill for Fiscal Year 2016 (H.R. 2578) — take aim squarely at the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Directorate. More...