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Credits Up With 15 to Finish

In Indiana, encouraging students to pursue a full credit load is having a positive impact on students when the financial incentive is significant, according to a new analysis.

Experiments With a New Way of Paying for College

Colleges (and nontraditional providers) experiment with income-share agreements as innovation that could help some people afford education and training.

White House Would Slash Student Aid and NSF

Details leaked about forthcoming budget include large cuts to college aid programs and end Public Service Loan Forgiveness and subsidized loan programs. Other leaks point to new proposals to cut science.

College Instead of Crime

Boston-area nonprofit will pay gang members who want to go to college and get off the street, with a goal of improving communities.
Opinion

Not Exactly Free

John M. Burdick provides an insider’s view as to why he thinks the New York State Excelsior Scholarship isn’t actually giving students free college.

Can a Professor Be a Trustee?

Officials at Parkland College in Illinois await a judge’s decision on whether a newly elected college board member can keep her job as a faculty member.

Tuition Matching, Take 2

University of Maine sleds uphill by trying to draw students from faraway California and Illinois with program matching in-state flagship rates of other states, but sees yet more gains from New England.