Government

As Senator Lamar Alexander nears retirement, he is making one last push to simplify applying for financial aid, and this time, he might get it.

Working adults increasingly are interested in pursuing postsecondary education, but they are also less confident about the value of college.

Some Democrats and some Republicans don't fit neatly into their expected boxes on the issue.

Adtalem bets big on health-care education with acquisition of Walden University in the face of an uncertain landscape for for-profits.

According to an Inside Higher Ed analysis of federal elections data, employees at colleges and universities have donated five times as much to Joe Biden as to Donald Trump.

Kevin Carey answers questions about his proposal to reshape higher education with a new federal subsidy tied to requirements for participating colleges to join uniform pricing and credit-transfer systems.

New analysis found that a college's reopening decision for the fall term is tied to the red or blue shade of its state, even if political pressure may not be direct.

Federal loan disbursements were down across the board this summer, but for-profit colleges were hit particularly hard.