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Live Updates: Tracking Trump's Higher Ed Agenda
Tracking Supreme Court Filings — DIY Scrapper and Alert Regime
Trump Administration Turns Up Heat on Harvard With Financial Lever
Trump Moves to Defund Minority-Serving Institutions
How the U. of Chicago’s Financial Strains Are a Warning for Higher Ed
Should Colleges Spend Down Their Surpluses?
How the GOP Plan to End Grad PLUS Loans Could Affect Your Campus
What the Failed Sale of the University of Phoenix Means for Higher Ed
Will Trump's DOJ Use Consent Decrees Against Columbia
How Much Power Does the Trump Administration Hold Over Harvard?
Columbia’s President Stepped Down, Replaced By Board Co-Chair.
Trump Plans to Shutter USAID. Here’s What That Could Mean for Higher Ed.
What Trump's Research-Spending Cap Means For Your University
What Trump's Trillion-Dollar Funding Freeze Could Mean For Your College?
Believe It Or Not, The Cost of College Tuition Is Shrinking
Arizona State U. Is Expanding to California. It’s Been Rocky.
Financial Headwinds Force Colleges To Raid Their Endowments
Can Colleges Withstand a Second Enrollment Cliff?
How the U. of Arizona Found Itself in a ‘Financial Crisis’ of Its Own Making
Education Dept. Uncovers ‘Culture of Silence’ at Liberty U.
2 States Restricted DEI. Here’s How Colleges Revised Their Websites.
Why Is West Virginia University Making Sweeping Cuts?
After JAMA Editor’s Controversial Resignation, A $500,000 Payout
How a $10-Million Accounting Error Rattled the U. of Hartford
Following Expansion, This University Is Drastically Cutting Back
North Idaho College’s Credit Rating Downgraded
Accreditor Pressures North Idaho College with Show-Cause Order
Could North Idaho College Really Lose Its Accreditation?
College Cutbacks Strip Workers of $728 Mil. In Retirement Pay
Despite Sky-High Inflation, No Sign Yet of Surging Tuition Costs
After 'Transformational' Pact, the U. of Arizona and Zovio Part Ways
Here's How Much Covid Relief Money Your College Can Expect.
In Latest Public Filings, Liberty U. Blasts Former President Jerry Falwell Jr.
How Ohio State U. Successfully Trademarked the Word 'THE'
How Did These Colleges End Up On A Monopoly Board?
Watchdog to Congress: Scrutinize Higher Ed and Predictive Analytics
Work in Public Education? You Might Be an Investor in Chegg
How a President Decided It Was Time to Close His College
N.Y. Fed: Default Surge When Student-Loan Repayment Resumes
How Ohio Valley U. Fight For Survival Ultimately Ended In Bankruptcy
What 4 Billionaires With Russia Ties Have Donated to American Colleges
During Pandemic, These Colleges Inked New Pay Deals With Presidents
America’s Standardized-Testing Giants Are Losing Money Fast
Feds Warn Shuttering College Operator: Don't Mislead Students
Was a Mega-University's Bold Plans for Growth Too Ambitious?
Here’s Who Was Hit Hardest by Higher Ed’s Pandemic-Driven Job Losses
Can These Struggling Degree Programs Survive a Pandemic?
5 Takeaways Detailing How Politics Warped Public Higher Education
How Politics Warped Public Higher Education
Following The Money — How Politics Warped Public Higher Education
Executive Compensation at Public and Private Colleges
Covid-19 Could Push Some Struggling Public Regional Colleges To The Brink
How a For-Profit Tycoon Turned His Colleges Into Nonprofits
With Revenues Choked Off, Colleges Ask: How Much Cash Do They Need?
Coronavirus’s Strain on Colleges So Far
What Happens to College Food Workers as Covid Shuts Down Campuses
Do Graduate Assistants Earn a Living Wage? Not in These Cities
What You Need to Know About DeVos’s Closer Scrutiny of Foreign Gifts
Private-College Presidents Reap Millions From Long Tenures
How Chasing Prestige Is Starting to Strain Some Elite Institutions
What We Learned From Turning Point USA’s Latest Financial Disclosure
Splits Between Colleges and Presidents Can Yield 6-Figure Golden Parachutes
Short Presidential Tenures, But Large Payouts. Why?
Former USC Dean Accused of Drug-Fueled 2nd Life Paid Nearly $1 Million
How America’s College-Closure Crisis Leaves Families Devastated
The Companies Behind The Varsity Blues Scandal
UCF Will Pay Its Former President To Leave. He's Not The First.
The Education Dept. Failed to Monitor Loan Servicers, Watchdog Finds
Inside Wright State’s 6-Year Journey Into Financial Trouble
America's Provosts and Career Paths: An Analysis
How Scandal and Severance Enrich Private-College Presidents
Hate Crimes on Campuses Are Rising, New FBI Data Show
Tracking Webpage Changes and Breaking News With Klaxon
A Political Candidate With Steep Student Loan Debt? Should It Matter?
U. of Louisville Wants $4 Million Back From Its One-Time President
How Will Michigan State U. Pay $500 Million Fine?
Higher Interest Costs For Borrowers Delaying Repayment
Meet Drew Cloud, Well-Quoted Student Loan Expert. And Not Real.
Here’s What We Know About Private-College Police Departments
Who Foots Most of the Bill for Public Colleges? In 28 States, It’s Students
Here Are the Hottest College Sports — and the Ones in Decline
How the NCAA’s March Madness Windfall Makes Its Way to Colleges
Can Student Debt Hold Back the Economy? What the Research Says
How Russian Trolls Used Higher Ed to Sow Discord Online
Campuses See Hate-Crime Spike After 2016 Election
Inside the Process That Jump-Starts Federal Sex-Harassment Lawsuits
Why Students Are Leaving Illinois in Droves — and Why It Matters
New Tax Law Takes Aim at Higher Education’s Millionaires Club
Private Colleges Had 58 Millionaire Presidents in 2015
Banks Pay Colleges Big Money to Market Student Checking Accounts
Auditors Fault UVa Police For Failing to Prepare for White Supremacists
Minority-Serving Institutions Set To Lose Money Under House GOP Plan
How a Defense Dept. Program Equips Campus Police Forces
Tell Us Where The Confederate Monuments on Your Campus Are
Texas Presidents Top List Of Best-Paid Public College Executives
39 Private-College Leaders Earn More Than $1 Million
Bonuses Push More Public-College Leaders Past $1 Million
Who Owns Downtown Saint Paul — An Interactive Investigation
Visualized — New Bill Would Force Sex Offenders Out Of St. Paul
Minnesota's Struggles To Account For All Fatal Police Encounters
Search a Decade of Fatal Shootings By Police In Minnesota
Shaken-Baby Syndrome Prosecutions — An Interactive Database
St. Paul Paid Out $10.4 million in Staff Overtime in 2014
Leap from Legislator to Lobbyist a Short One in Minnesota
From $3 Bil. In Earnings To Layoffs — Target Corp.’s Travails In 7 Charts
Contribution Credit — WaPo's Shaken Science
Should the Education Dept. Start Collecting Its Own Debts?
On Campus, Grenade Launchers, M-16s, and Armored Vehicles
Promises of Student Loan Debt Relief Meet Privacy Concerns
A Glimpse at the Connections Among 7 Debt-Relief Companies
I Called 4 Companies for Advice on My Student Debt. This Is What I Learned.
The Pitch — Debt Relief. The Reality: Borrowers May Pay More.
Report: Education Dept. Must Monitor Debt-Collection Firms Better
Faculty, Students Give Input on Chess Program’s Past, Future
Read Susan Polgar's Million-Dollar Chess Program Proposal
Players Leverage Their Chess Skills to Earn U.S. College Education
Former Student Attends Class with Pending Default on Student Debt
University Houses and Perks Not Just For Presidents
As Healthcare Costs Balloon, Are Boomers Ready for Retirement?
Consultants See Demand Rise as ObamaCare is Installed
After 20 Years of Real Estate Purchases, Webster Eyes Expansion
Election 2012: Who Webster's Board Supported
Captured Gaddafi Son Wished to Attend International Webster Campus
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