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GI Bill Benefits on the Brink
For-profit Ashford University, facing loss of access to GI Bill benefits by month's end, needs approval from a state to stop thousands of student veterans from losing aid.
Reorganization Feared at St. John's
Plan to put Annapolis and Santa Fe campuses of Great Books college under a single president at Santa Fe sets off anxieties among supporters of older campus in Annapolis.
Focus on Certificates Boosts Completion Goals
Louisiana and other states are closer to reaching college completion goals as their emphasis shifts to more certificates in addition to degrees.
From 4-Year to 2-Year
New report on transfer of struggling students from universities to community colleges finds students benefit from moving in nontraditional direction.
Weighing For-Profits' Access to Military Bases
Legislators, veterans groups and for-profit colleges wrangle over details of an amendment that would expand for-profit colleges' access to students on military bases.
Not So Gainfully Employed
New study says typical experience of those who enroll at for-profit colleges is a decline in earnings and a rise in debt.
Seminaries Squeezed
Mainline Protestant theological schools are exploring mergers and campus sales as they feel a prolonged enrollment and financial pinch, but experts see smaller institutions bubbling up under different faiths.
Opinion
Searching for the Humanities
John Fea, a history chair, describes what he learned on his daughter's college tours about the presence or absence of a liberal arts ethos.