The Trump administration’s Department of Education abruptly removed two critical applications—IDR, the online application portal for income-driven repayment, as well as the online application to apply for a federal Direct consolidation loan.
From test-optional policies and AI-powered tools to a greater focus on holistic applications and career-oriented programs, these shifts are creating new opportunities for students to showcase their strengths and interests throughout the college admission process.
The past year yielded another rich crop of books about higher education. Included in this year’s best volumes are books on HBCUs, standardized testing, free speech and institutional leadership in a time of crisis.
Sports fans, commentators and even athletics directors are openly debating the feasibility of whether college athletes could organize and collectively bargain in the future.
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Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) across the country were recognized recently by a proclamation from President Biden, during National Hispanic-Serving Institutions Week and just before the...
The idea has been around at least a decade, since wild predictions were made that more than half of all colleges would fail. Then, the reason was the rise of for-profit schools and online education.
On July 19, Pennsylvania State University announced it had received a $20 million commitment from J. Jeffrey and Ann Marie Fox for its graduate school, the largest gift in the grad school’s history.
Some of the nation’s biggest tech companies have announced efforts to reskill people to avoid job losses caused by artificial intelligence, even as they work to perfect the technology that could eliminate millions of those jobs.
