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Your Course Is My Course, Too
Private colleges team up online to fill available courses and help students more quickly fulfill degree requirements. The initiative opens the way for more digital collaboration but poses challenges.
Insuring Against Drop in Chinese Students
U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is paying $424,000 to protect itself in case of a falloff.
The Growing Loan Burden for Parents of College Students
Parents are taking out bigger loans to pay for their children's college education, a new report finds, and having worse outcomes repaying that debt.
Loan Watchdog Starts Group to Fight for Borrowers
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's former top student loan official said Wednesday he was launching an organization to advocate for...
Court Eliminates Debt of Former ITT Tech Students
A federal judge approved a settlement Wednesday that erases more than $500 million in student debt held by former ITT...
Call to Expand Federal Aid for Career Education
A newly released report from a 13-member task force of academics and experts from think tanks calls to "reform higher...
UW Madison to Pay $32 Million Over Patent Contract
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), the patent-licensing organization for the University of Wisconsin at Madison, was ordered to pay...
Academic Minute: Forgiveness
Today on the Academic Minute, Loren Toussaint, professor of psychology at Luther College, explains how forgiving yourself and others can...