Student Aid Policy

State dollars for public higher education would go farther, prominent researchers argue, if more of it went to open-access colleges and need-based aid.

A House Ways and Means subcommittee examines endowments, but lawmakers focus on college affordability.

Education Department's new sanctions against the for-profit college include a ban on enrolling new students who receive federal aid and tougher financial oversight.

U.S. Education Department denies a Utah-based for-profit college's application to change its tax status.

The federal financial aid application now allows students to use existing federal tax data, designed to inform families earlier about their available aid. But student advocates say colleges may undercut progress by moving up their own deadlines for students.

Unfortunately, the news media and other observers often overlook the fact that student debt is a problem with a color and class element, writes Mark Huelsman.

As bipartisan consensus emerges in Congress that colleges should share the burden of students who can't repay loans or find jobs, higher ed leaders consider how such a plan would work and whether it would discourage them from educating the disadvantaged.

A new report suggests wealthy institutions should spend more from their endowments to help low-income students, but many campus critics say it's not so simple.