Higher education

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.

Larger endowments — which tend to invest more in private equity and venture capital — didn't do as well as smaller ones that stuck to investment basics.

A regional director of the National Labor Relations Board has ruled that Dartmouth's men's basketball players are employees who can form a union.

A new study finds that "a large fraction — around 20% — of college graduates obtained their degree after age 30."