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Mismatch on Loan Negotiations?
Negotiators tapped to debate mostly technical changes in student loan rules have more of an activist bent.
Law and Disorder
Report explores the deepening crisis in law schools and what the rest of higher education can learn from it.
Maximum Pell Preserved
A budget compromise would slightly increase funding for the National Institutes of Health and change eligibility for the largest federal grant program for college students.
Price Back in the Spotlight
A Congressional subcommittee and Education Secretary Arne Duncan are both taking steps to address rising tuition costs.
Private Scholarship, Public Funds
Washington State creates public-private scholarship where corporate donors call the shots on how to spend and invest the fund, which includes state money.
Another Koch Grant Questioned
Whitman professors find it inappropriate that the foundation, following a grant for a lecture, requested students' e-mail addresses.
Occupy Student Loans
Student debt has emerged as a major focus of the protests. Some worry that prospective students are hearing the wrong message -- while others see important shifts in the political debate about borrowing.
Paying It Forward
A few small private colleges are following the lead of law schools, using a loan repayment program to help students perform service work immediately after graduation.