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Five students say leading colleges and universities are acting as an illegal “cartel” in violation of antitrust law. One of the students’ lawyers is a former prosecutor in the Varsity Blues case.

Many other fights that focus on for-profit higher education will be center stage in a round of negotiated rule making sponsored by the Department of Education this week. Will the negotiators find consensus on any issues?

Two-thirds of all undergraduate, need-based grant aid awarded during the 2019–20 academic year was concentrated in eight states. California handed out $2.4 billion, the most of any state.

High school juniors who believe they can’t afford higher education are about 20 percentage points less likely to attend college within the first three years after high school than peers who don’t think affordability is a barrier.

Even if few institutions are commemorating the anniversary, individual scholars and groups say they’re working to keep lessons of the insurrection alive.

Senator Elizabeth Warren has been one of the most vocal lawmakers when it comes to student loans and student debt. In an exclusive interview with Inside Higher Ed, she explains why.

By the end of Thursday, the committee had voted on most of the issues up for regulation, but so far members have only agreed on proposed regulatory language for two of them.

The national initiative will aim to make sweeping changes to higher education over the next decade by improving credential completion and social mobility and reducing student loan debt.