Financial Health

Compromise legislation, clearing several key hurdles, would provide billions for Pell Grants, minority institutions -- and, in a late reversal, community colleges.

With Congress set to take up health measure, Democrats strip community college funds, accountability provisions and more from loan overhaul.

Democrats' plan to consider health care legislation through "budget reconciliation" process has implications for student loan reform -- not all of them good.

As the recession leads some colleges to pull back on aid commitments, Hamilton moves in the opposite direction.

The "no loans" era of elite private higher education might be short-lived. Dartmouth College announced Monday that it is restoring...

Who will be first? That's the question many experts on financial aid have been asking for the last year, with...

The economic crisis is the perfect time for colleges to get honest about merit aid, and to minimize it, writes John Roush.

Elite private colleges have seen slight increase in share of student body from low incomes, but their wealthiest students have seen notable gains as well.