Higher Education

Universities rarely release the specific criteria behind their aid decisions. Could a little-known regulation help open the black box?

Michael Leachman: Tuition costs are rising as states respond to the recession by cutting public funding to higher education, with cuts averaging 28 percent on a per pupil basis.

Education “reform” is threatening to gut and loot US universities, while the fact that American democracy has been devolving into oligarchy is not a serious enough matter to address …

Oregonu2019s three largest state schools are in the process of breaking away from the rest of the public system.

Public universities have been shifting their aid, giving less to the poorest students and more to the wealthiest.

Last week President Obama visited Buffalo to use the University at Buffalo as a backdrop to address the soaring cost of higher education. Todayu2019s SUNY students, if they can …

Obama's speech at the State University of New York at Buffalo has faculty members disappointed over proposed ratings system for higher education institutions.

Massive Open Online Courses might democratize and open higher education but are problematic with regard to deskilling academic labor.

As the government continues to education to become more expensive, Anna Challet asks when does the sacrifice become too much.

Could Warren's bill represent the sort of game-changing thinking sorely needed to turn the economy around?