Financial Health

President forgives $10,000 for everyone whose income doesn’t exceed $125,000, and $20,000 for Pell Grant recipients.

Some higher ed institutions are working to ease financial burdens on students and employees as the cost of food, gas and basic essentials continues to rise.

Colleges are navigating murky legal territory on abortion issues following the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade. Questions loom, but answers are scarce.

Illinois public colleges and universities, prodded by new state law, become latest to end the use of withholding transcripts from students with institutional debts.

Education Department proposes changes to loan programs to make it easier for public service employees and those who attended fraudulent colleges to get their student loans forgiven.

California governor Gavin Newsom signed a massive 2023 budget that promises billions of new dollars to higher ed institutions and programs.

The 30-month pause on student loan payments is astoundingly regressive, Andrew Gillen writes.

Federal scrutiny grows of a practice colleges use widely. Two experts discuss what policy makers and institutions can do to avoid impeding students from jobs or further education.