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Two days after UVa altered its policies to reduce students' loan burdens, Williams increases its grant levels.

Enrollment is rising dramatically in American Sign Language, creating debates about how language and culture are defined, and which languages should count toward colleges' requirements.

There is no such thing as an offhanded comment from a White House spokesman.So when Trent Duffy, in explaining Friday that President Bush would seek to bolster the Pell Grant program in part by reducing the subsidies paid to lenders in the student-loan program, called the subsidies "excessive" and described the loan industry as "very profitable," the political winds surrounding the student-loan programs continued to shift.

"Upwardly Mobile Academic" consists of brief e-mail interviews with newly named presidents about their career paths and philosophies. Kermit L. Hall has just been named president of the State University of New York at Albany. A historian of the federal court system, Hall has been president of Utah State University since 2000.Q: You were selected for the Albany job after missing out on the University of Tennessee presidency, a search in which you criticized the process. Can you compare the two search processes?

A new program to ease the transfer of community college students to elite institutions is on the horizon.

The manager of Harvard's mammoth endowment, his millions in compensation under attack, heads for the private sector.

An online database provides a glimpse into the discipline's future.

The budget unveiled by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger Monday pleased California's universities but left community colleges a little short.

There's a surprising source for research on controversial topics in higher education: economists. In their journals and at their scholarly meetings, they are spending a lot of time analyzing issues that are important to many academics. The American Economic Association met this weekend in Philadelphia. Here are some of the findings of interest to academics who aren't economists: