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Some colleges are targeting financial aid to middle-class families

For Emily Kayser, the prospect of covering her son’s college tuition on a teacher’s salary is “scary. It’s very stressful.” To pay for it,...

Some students are fighting to stay in college after the FAFSA delayed financial aid

Brenda H. almost didn’t make it to her first day of college. She tried to apply for financial aid through the Free Application for...

Most community college students plan to get 4-year degrees. Few actually do

Only 13% of community college students actually go on to earn degrees from four-year institutions within eight years, according to data released by the U.S. Department of Education in 2023.

As a new semester looms, students and colleges brace for more protests

Scores of students around the nation are using the summer to strategize and plan for what their activism might look like in the fall.

Women don’t have equal access to college in prison. Here’s why

For many people in prison, access to college courses is dependent on access to federal financial aid, including Pell Grant. But in over half of all states, men’s prisons offer more access to Pell Grant-eligible courses than women's prisons do, researchers say.

Bloomberg gives $1 billion to Hopkins to make tuition free for most medical students

Starting in the fall semester, students who come from households earning less than $300,000 will have their tuition paid for, while students whose households bring in less than $175,000 will have their tuition, fees and living expenses paid for, the university announced Monday.

College credit for working your job? Walmart and McDonald’s are trying it

Some of the nation’s largest employers, including Walmart and McDonald’s, are now broaching a new frontier in higher education: convincing colleges to give retail and fast-food workers credit for what they learn on the job, counting toward a degree.

While women outnumber men on campus, their later earnings remain stuck

There has been a long-running rise in the number of women pursuing higher education, while the percentage of students who are men has been declining—a trend that's beginning to hit even male-dominated fields such as engineering and business.

A mega-gift for an HBCU college fell through. Here’s what happened—and what’s next

The donor behind the $237.75 million gift to Florida A&M University was Gregory Gerami, a 30-year-old businessman from Texas who said he wanted to make sure the historically Black school's windfall would help students who needed the money most.

1,500 college applicants thought they were accepted. They soon learned it was an error

The affected students who applied for admission for the 2024-25 school year received a welcome email from Georgia State University congratulating them on their acceptance. However the university said the students, who had incomplete applications, received the message by mistake.

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