Higher education

Training in high-tech and the skilled trades are attracting students' interest the most.

During the pandemic, many colleges cut costs by taking their magazines entirely online. Since then, there's been a big shift back to print. 

The FAFSA does not ask about two key measures of wealth – the family home and retirement accounts.

Following a Florida bill that effectively bans DEI programs at the state's college and universities, the NAACP has called on Black athletes to reconsider attending predominantly white institutions.

"We can't really address the problem without engaging business at full scale," says Columbia Business School's Bruce Usher.

In the '70s and '80s, college students demanded divestment as a way to put pressure on South Africa to end its apartheid policy.

Free tuition programs in two New England states have brought thousands of new students into community college classrooms. But they're also straining some schools' faculty and financial aid staff.

While Vanderbilt offers merit aid and need-based financial aid, its high sticker cost says a lot about college affordability in the U.S.

Schools are seeking government approval to start degree programs after financial aid for incarcerated students was fully reinstated.

Now 60, she learned that her decades-old GPA disqualifies her from receiving federal loans or grants.