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Small Loans, Big Problem
Community college students who take out small federal loans are more likely to default, new report finds, and most defaulters earned fewer than 15 credits and never made a payment on their debt.
Measuring Motivation
Colleges are using a nonacademic skills test from ETS to try to boost graduation rates and in remedial course placement. One university gives the test to all its athletes.
Long Beach Promise Expands
An influential free community college program that helped shaped President Obama's two-year America's College Promise initiative is expanding from one semester to two.
Grounded by FAA Rules
Colleges with air traffic control programs lose students as result of changes in hiring preferences. Is federal agency ignoring need for higher education for those in a role that is essential to safety?
Does Divestment Cost?
Opposing reports this year offer colleges and universities mixed views on financial impact of selling holdings in fossil fuels.
Opinion
How Did You Get Stuck Being a College President?
For college and university presidents who must deal with ever-growing challenges, Susan Resneck Pierce offers some advice.
When Regulation Pays
Coding academies and boot camps are growing fast. State agencies started paying attention to short-term training programs last year, in a move that may have helped the industry.
Going Back to School
Study finds first-time graduate school enrollment is up 3.5 percent, the biggest annual increase since the Great Recession.