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Financial aid officers report widespread problems with the federal student aid system after Education Department layoffs, including processing delays they say could affect the current cycle.

Summer bridge programs have long helped students from underrepresented backgrounds start their college journey. In the anti-DEI era, many institutions are quietly shifting focus.

Immigration officials sent letters to recent international graduates on short-term work visas giving them 15 days to report employment or face removal from the country. 

Not every claim of unfairness is equal, Uma Mazyck Jayakumar writes.

The number of adult learners and other independent students applying to college has doubled in under a decade. The trouble, a new report suggests, is getting them to enroll.

A recent report by the Campaign for College Opportunity encourages systemic measures to close equity gaps in Black student completion.

House Republicans proposed sweeping changes to financial aid, federal loans and program cost estimates that could make paying for college more challenging and expensive.

Policymakers and higher ed leaders should recognize rurality as a key lens through which to evaluate transfer outcomes, Gerardo de los Santos writes.