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What Did Black Colleges Win From Meetings With Trump?
Institutional aid was preserved in White House budget. But several programs facing significant cuts serve disproportionate numbers of minority students -- at HBCUs and elsewhere.
A Promise With Limits
Arkansas becomes latest state to create a free community college plan. But it limits programs of study and could require some recipients to pay back the money.
Competency at Scale
Big for-profit American Public now offers competency-based undergraduate degrees that don’t rely on the credit-hour standard, but federal aid isn’t part of the mix, for now.
Hungry and Unable to Complete
A new study points to food and housing issues that prevent many community college students from progressing.
A Boom in Promise
While California considers a plan to cut tuition and lower the cost of going to college, more than 50 local free two-year initiatives are popping up across the state.
Opinion
Make History
Wick Sloane challenges the college leaders at this weekend’s annual meeting of the American Council on Education: fight for low-income students.
Political Turmoil, Public Misunderstanding: A Survey of Presidents
Higher education is widely misunderstood by the public, struggling to enroll sufficient numbers of students from low-income backgrounds and likely...
Harvard Law Will Accept GRE
Move could change the debate in legal education about alternatives to the LSAT.