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Tuition discounting reached record high levels at private colleges and universities in 2008, and the largest share of that aid...

Apologies, in advance, to those who think the news media have a tendency to report on complex situations as if...

Overshadowed by health care, legislation to end lender-based federal loans and use savings to shore up grants for needy students nears final approval.

Compromise legislation, clearing several key hurdles, would provide billions for Pell Grants, minority institutions -- and, in a late reversal, community colleges.

With Congress set to take up health measure, Democrats strip community college funds, accountability provisions and more from loan overhaul.

Democrats' plan to consider health care legislation through "budget reconciliation" process has implications for student loan reform -- not all of them good.

As the recession leads some colleges to pull back on aid commitments, Hamilton moves in the opposite direction.

The "no loans" era of elite private higher education might be short-lived. Dartmouth College announced Monday that it is restoring...