Government

Senator Lamar Alexander proposed a sweeping change that would simplify applying for federal student aid while allowing many to make no or smaller monthly student loan payments.

Amid concerns the recession has made it harder for students to save for college, advocacy groups are calling for doubling the size of Pell Grants.

The Republican Senate is moving toward making it harder for students and workers to sue colleges if they contract the coronavirus.

Amid surge in distance education, states must play a stronger role in quality assurance, write Lori Williams and Rob Anderson.

As Congress mulls another coronavirus relief package, higher education lobbyists worry any aid will be focused on reopening and ignore billions in financial losses by colleges.

The decision to abandon a directive that would have prevented international students from taking all their coursework online came in response to a lawsuit from Harvard and MIT.

Four lawsuits have been filed against new Department of Education regulations for how colleges must respond to sexual misconduct on campus. The lawsuits question the merits of the regulations and seek to block their implementation.

Researchers used the racial and ethnic makeups of ZIP Codes as a proxy for race to track financial trajectories of college students.