Graduation rates

A Brookings paper challenging the notion that "everyone should go to college" is itself challenged (from many sides) for overstating its case.

California's community colleges get graded with new completion scorecards. Experts say the data are among the best provided by a public college system.

A community college tries to boost its completion rate, but takes a 20 percent enrollment hit in the process.

The U.S. Veterans Administration and the National Student Clearinghouse team up to track graduation rates.

The American Council on Education's plan to pursue credit recommendations for Coursera's massive courses is among wave of MOOC-related grants announced by Gates Foundation.

A database of all students ever admitted to the National Technical Institute for the Deaf allows the college to more reliably show the economic payoff of its programs. 

The Gates Foundation gives Texas community colleges the boot in Completion by Design project. State officials are surprised and disappointed by the decision, but vow to continue work.

Strayer offers big new scholarships, with tuition savings of as much as 30 percent. Will for-profits begin discounting tuition to cope with declining enrollment and federal scrutiny?

Senator Harkin's two-year investigation of for-profit higher education ends, but the policy battle is far from over. What comes next?

Large numbers of students transfer to community colleges from four-year institutions, study finds. While most never return, the "reverse transfer" path can work for students.