A pilot federal program embeds guidance counselors in housing projects to help chart students’ paths to college. As one of those counselors discovered, sometimes the biggest obstacles are cultural.

After years of grievances about the racial climate on the campus and the inadequacy of support services for minority students, the moment was ripe for revolt.

Even with financial aid from the college and the government, parents of all income levels rely on Parent PLUS Loans to close the gap.

Robert Quinn started Scholars at Risk two decades ago. The project matters now more than ever.

The founding dean of Arizona State University’s journalism school has been named the next chief of University of the Pacific.

The First Amendment “is strong medicine,” the provost said, “and works both ways.”

Students protested in 2014 to improve the campus’s cultural climate, among other reasons. Some see the recent wave of racist and anti-Semitic incidents as proof that the university never fixed its problems.

Carnegie Mellon’s librarian attributed the private university’s success to the University of California system’s high-profile negotiations earlier this year.

A company scuttled its plan to publish a list of colleges that it projects will go broke. Some say the pushback indicates higher ed’s resistance to transparency.

The conversation around college athletes’ profiting from their image rights has centered on the biggest stars. Here’s how legislation could affect players in nonrevenue sports.

The agency’s denial of recognition to a new nursing accreditor has left some higher-education experts confused and concerned about a possible new interpretation of existing regulations.

Babson College recruited Marwa Mohsen to join a new institution bearing the name of Mohammed bin Salman. When the job soured, she felt that she had nowhere to turn.