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By Stefanie Botelho. The University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin) and its main transfer-student feeder school, Austin Community College (ACC), are ground zero for the development of a national reverse-transfer initiative that could confer associate degrees on nearly 2M students who left a community college without a diploma. More...

By Stefanie Botelho. Part of the problem with Americans' insane amount of student loan debt is how many young adults get these loans without really grasping how much they will cost. More often than not, college-bound borrowers don't have experience budgeting all the expenses that come after college, so it's understandably difficult to comprehend how a $30,000 annual tuition bill will translate into post-graduate finances. More...

By Stefanie Botelho. A team of researchers at Clemson University is developing a one-of-a-kind app that could potentially stop a cyberbully in his or her tracks. More...

By Stefanie Botelho. The White House today announced that Arizona State University will lead the National STEM Collaborative, a consortium of 19 institutions of higher education and postsecondary and non-profit partners committed to supporting girls and women of color in STEM fields. More...

By Stefanie Botelho. Alarm bells are sounding across America as student debt has eclipsed one trillion dollars, larger than that of even credit cards. Seizing upon the growing concerns of voters, presidential candidates, especially Democrats, have proposed solutions that go so far as to suggest that higher education should be “free.” More...

By Stefanie Botelho. peerTransfer, the leading provider of global payment solutions for the education industry, today announced the relocation and expansion of its US and European offices in Boston, Mass. and Valencia, Spain. Necessitated by the company’s doubling in payment volume and revenue in the last 12 months, the new state-of-the-art locations will facilitate continued innovation and make room for critical growth in engineering, sales, marketing and operations capacity. More...

By Stefanie Botelho. President Obama is weighing in on the discussion over political dialogue on college campuses, saying students shouldn't be "coddled" from opposing views. More...

By Stefanie Botelho. Every day on my campus, I encounter and interact with students who at one time thought, or perhaps were told, that college was not a place for them. Unfortunately, too many students with the ability to succeed in college have the same experience. They are ethnic minorities, including Native Americans. More...

By Stefanie Botelho. In early June, California labor regulators ruled that a driver for Uber, the app-based car service, was, in fact, an employee, not an independent contractor, and deserved back pay. The decision made national news, with experts predicting a coming flood of lawsuits. More...

By Stefanie Botelho. When tech upstarts crow about disrupting education, they tend to focus on instruction. Online and blended learning have provided self-starters with new ways to learn. In previous columns, I've discussed how Minerva pursues a leaner university with lower tuition costs, how General Assembly provides a practical supplement to liberal arts curriculum, and how various online education platforms (MOOCs) serve adult learners. More...