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Target joins Walmart in paying for college for employees

Free books are also included.

For adults returning to college, ‘free’ tuition isn’t enough

States and colleges are pressing to get more adults to complete degrees, but many programs are not structured to serve them

‘It’s finally here’: Are colleges prepared to receive a first-year cohort shaped by COVID-19?

Families face a hard goodbye as their children and siblings leave for college during a pandemic.

Elite colleges offer students cash, ski passes to ease campus housing crunch

In Vermont, Middlebury College is dangling incentives like ski passes to find takers for a satellite locale 11 miles away.

New report commissioned by NCAA finds a massive gender inequity in college basketball

"There is no analogous financial reward for participation in or performance at the Division I Women's Basketball Championship," the study says. "This sends a very clear and loud message to student-athletes, conferences, and schools about which sports matter and which sports do not."

5 ways colleges can engage students returning to campus this fall

How to get students out of their pandemic shell and back to engaging on campus.

Independence University is closing and an ‘unusual arrangement’ has caught feds’ attention

A Utah college with online degrees closed abruptly over the weekend, disrupting the lives of thousands of students. But it’s the university’s efforts to push students to new colleges that has the federal government asking questions.

There’s now a subscription service for college textbooks

Think Netflix, but for textbooks.

2nd student death at Penn State tied to COVID-19 as fall approaches

Penn State officials, like their counterparts nationally, are hoping for a return to near normal this fall after 18 months of reduced campus populations; classes that were all or partly online; testing routines; and quarantines.

West Virginia State University president resigns amid controversy

Nicole Pride resigned as president of West Virginia State University, three weeks after five members of her senior Cabinet asked the school’s Board of Governors to remove her “to allow for an investigation.”

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