Student Aid Policy

For-profit colleges in New York can now participate in the tuition-free scholarship program that typically benefits nonprofit institutions alone.

Annual report on public higher education finance shows more states relying more heavily on tuition, even in a year when appropriations rose nationally.

Federal budget bill removes snag in financial aid data sharing with private scholarship providers, but programs that rely on aid data for social services are left in the cold.

Veterans’ organizations add their voices to the chorus of college groups opposing House Republicans’ overhaul of the Higher Education Act.

Community colleges would face big cost increases under House GOP's plan to overhaul repayment system for federal aid when students drop out.

With $100 million to win, Wick Sloane urges college leaders at this week’s American Council on Education annual meeting to work on graduating more low-income students and ending poverty. Yes, merely that.

Susan Dynarski, a prominent scholar, accuses Kevin Hassett, a top Trump administration economist, of plagiarizing her work in a 2007 column.

A student receiving federal grants and loans who commits an infraction as minor as possessing marijuana faces losing aid eligibility. Some see this rule as unwise and are pushing to change it.