Business

Mandatory budget cuts take effect at midnight tonight. While the specific effects of the cuts are still unclear, colleges warn they will be harmful.

By providing data on colleges' "average net price," the Obama administration's College Scorecard has replaced one not-very-useful indicator (sticker price) with another, writes Abigail Seldin.

The current political discussion of college costs is based on flawed assumptions about the market for high quality education, writes Alison Byerly.

Ellen McCulloch-Lovell proposes a method to track the way colleges contribute to society in ways that go far beyond the salaries of graduates.

Increase only marginally exceeds rate of inflation, survey finds.

Carolyn Foster Segal discusses the lessons higher education might learn from the sad story of the student who sued her university over a C+ grade.

A second librarian's blog becomes the target of a potential lawsuit from a disgruntled publisher.

New investor-backed company teams up with public two-year colleges to create honors programs designed to attract top students and help them transfer.