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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation unveils a tool to help college leaders and policy makers carry out its recommendations on how institutions can increase equity and attainment.

The shortage of financial aid employees is especially worrisome given that the Department of Education is now planning to beef up its enforcement of federal student aid program rules.

If the Claremont School of Theology cannot sell its campus for close to market value, it will close. The Claremont Colleges, first in line to purchase the land, asserts it has already made a generous offer.

University claims conflict of interest requires that faculty members not participate in suit. Decision stuns experts, who note that faculty have played a variety of roles in suits against states.

The Biden administration and congressional Democrats cut the Build Back Better Act in half, leaving many higher education investments behind but boosting the maximum Pell Grant and funding for HBCUs and other minority-serving institutions.

As tuition rises slowly, the amount of federal loans students and parents take on to finance higher education declines, the College Board’s annual report shows.

Colleges can’t view it as the end goal to responding effectively to the climate crisis, argue Alex Barron, Aaron Strong and Lucy Metz, who offer five other recommendations for action.

By Alex Barron et al.