Graduation rates

Unveiling data showing that athletes are getting more degrees, NCAA chief takes college sports' critics to task for ignoring the facts.

In letter to Congress, association argues that big-time college sports should keep tax-exempt status.

Researchers say California policies on community colleges, with focus on access, have inadvertently built barriers to degree completion.

Amid objections to a federal system of student-level academic data, a "national" system is emerging, report finds.

Inside Higher Ed's 2nd annual look at how colleges would fare in the NCAA tournament if graduation rates ruled.

Complaints about federal measures are valid, study finds, but dealing with issues raised by the complaints has little relative impact.

Minority women pursuing their Ph.D.'s mentor one another and young girls to keep the pipeline open at all levels.

New report shows increases in number of states aligning high school and college curriculums and raising standards.

The evidence is mounting. In year three of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's new system for measuring and reporting athletes' and teams' academic performance, through what it calls the Academic Progress Rate, the association is getting a good sense of which teams are safe from penalties and which are digging themselves into trouble.

Could Cal State-Long Beach be educating students better than Princeton? It depends on what you think of graduation rates.