Congress/legislation

Immigration reform package would offer path toward permanent legal status to college students lacking residency rights in U.S.

Congress seems poised to expand tuition tax breaks for students, but will colleges be taxed more to pay for them?

The leaders of the Senate Finance Committee have urged the U.S. treasury secretary to change the federal tax form that many tax-exempt entities file each year, with the goal of ramping up scrutiny of the complex financial operations of private nonprofit colleges and hospitals. The letter from Sens. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) offers some new insights -- worrisome to college tax experts -- into the senators' interest in the possibility of penalizing institutions that are perceived as spending too small a proportion of their endowment assets.

Trustees' group says student loan reform bill would bar presidents and board members from bank boards, but others disagree.

Letter from lawmakers urges education secretary not to propose changes in U.S. rules governing accreditation.

Less than two weeks after the House Appropriations subcommittee for education programs delivered a major potential boost to the maximum Pell Grant and the National Institutes of Health, the mirroring Senate panel delivered significantly less in its own 2008 spending bill Tuesday.

Looking around the crowded Senate hearing room Wednesday, it was relatively easy, at first glance, to sort out the winners and losers as the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions approved a package of legislation to renew the Higher Education Act.

Congressional hearing on attracting international students urges shift in focus to developing continents and countries.

As House Democrats unveil new version of budget measure, White House opposes interest rate cut, new spending and loan auction idea.

Measure would bolster Pell Grants and cut interest rates by cutting lender subsidies gains; questions raised about Sallie Mae deal.