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State agency's plan to save borrowers money by paying half of default fee and requiring lenders to pick up the rest is quashed by U.S. Education Department.

Colleges experiment with effort to better measure the economic needs of foreign undergraduates.

1,100 black, Hispanic and other minority Ph.D.'s and doctoral students gather for advice and kinship in a setting where they're more than a "speck in a room."

Proposed changes meant to address concern that current offerings lack coherence, but some professors worry about workload implications.

Academic officers discuss what it means to think about science as a liberal arts subject.

At Michigan State, British politician with history of Holocaust denial and racially inflammatory views sets off controversy.