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Illinois Restores Grants for Low-Income Students
Following an intense lobbying drive by colleges and students in Illinois, a new law will authorize about 137,000 low-income students...
Healthier (Sometimes Stealth) Campus Dining
More colleges are making portions smaller and adding nutritious ingredients (sometimes without telling) in efforts to encourage healthier eating habits...
Hot Seat
As frustration mounts in Congress and on campuses, the Department of Veterans Affairs attempts to explain a backlog of nearly 30,000 GI Bill benefit payments.
Out-of-State Dreams
Can more non-resident students (who pay higher tuition) balance budgets of flagship universities? A growing number of institutions think so. Some experts doubt the plans will work; others fear a shift in values.
University Sues Anonymous Blogger, and Student Surfaces
Butler U. says anonymous critic engaged in libel and defamation. He turned out to be an undergraduate writing about his stepmother's removal as department chair.
'A True Liberal Arts Education'
At a time when the liberal arts sector feels ever-increasing pressure to justify its own existence, and when colleges are...
Russia Arrests Historian Studying Stalin Era
Russian authorities have arrested a historian who was conducting research on the Germans sent to Arctic gulag camps during World...