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The state schools in California and many other colleges are extending their May 1 commitment deadlines. Some are also creating new aid forms. The University of California and California State [...]

The administration proposed to use its ''compromise and settlement'' powers under the Higher Education Act of 1965. But what does that mean? On June 30, in the wake of losing [...]

ALBANY -- When Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo unveiled plans this month to make state colleges free for middle- and low-income New Yorkers, he seemed to find a path to instant [...]

Leer en Espa±ol Aracely Nu±ez and Dalia Luque are both the children of Mexican immigrants who entered the country illegally and settled in Phoenix. They're strangers, with stories that echo [...]

President Obama last week signed an executive order aimed at easing the debt burden on millions of people who borrowed money for college. Soaring loan costs, he said, have put [...]

By the time Corey Vollette decided to go to college -- after years spent adrift after dropping out of high school -- it was too late to take advantage of [...]

The Obama administration's proposed rules that would deny federal aid to career training programs that saddle students with crushing debt and useless credentials are a clear improvement over the disastrous [...]

MIAMI -- After weeks of hand-wringing in the State Legislature and last-minute attempts by Senate leaders to scuttle the effort, the Florida Senate on Thursday voted to make students who [...]

Oliver Tessenow feels upset. In his five years of undergraduate and graduate studies at Leibniz University Hanover, he has had to pay tuition, but as he prepares to leave next [...]

Thousands of illegal immigrants living in Massachusetts can qualify for state resident tuition rates at state colleges, under a policy laid out on Monday by Gov. Deval Patrick -- another [...]

LOS ANGELES -- The chancellor of the California community college system has requested that Santa Monica College hold off on its plan to begin offering popular courses for a higher [...]

Colleges and universities have historically obscured their tuition costs in a way that makes comparative shopping virtually impossible. And far too little information is available on graduation rates and loan [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED Facing serious financial trouble in a weak economy, Cooper Union, the New York City college founded in 1859 to provide free education for the working class, may begin [...]

If you run up big credit card bills buying a new home theater system and can't pay it off after a few years, bankruptcy judges can get rid of the [...]

Costs are rising rapidly throughout the University of California system, but its newest law school, at Irvine, announced this week that the 80 students chosen for the second entering class […]

Despite strong criticism from the Bush administration, the House overwhelmingly approved legislation on Thursday that would establish a federal list of the nation's most expensive colleges and crack down on […]

Gov. Eliot Spitzer's State of the State message was filled with benefits for New York's public universities, including 2,000 new full-time faculty members and the creation of an endowment of […]

The Higher Education Act of 1965, due to be re-authorized by Congress this fall, was meant to ensure that no academically qualified American would be barred from college for financial […]

House Republicans plan to announce today that they are withdrawing legislation that would have imposed financial penalties on colleges and universities that raised tuition too sharply. Representative Howard P. McKeon, […]

A new law in Illinois will freeze tuition for public university students at the level they pay when they enter as freshmen. While some individual colleges, like Western Illinois University […]

JUST about everyone involved says it was a shame for Washington to do it in the first place, and for New York not to have undone it by now. In […]

Illegal immigrants will be permitted to pay the lower tuition that the University of California charges state residents under a plan approved by its Board of Regents today. The board […]

California's legislature has created a new educational entitlement: lots of kids will be going to college free of charge. Sound good? It isn't. It's likely to harm the great public […]

California today enacted the most generous college financial aid plan in the nation, guaranteeing needy high school students with good grades grants for full tuition at the state's public colleges […]

The First Amendment protects the right to speak -- and sometimes the right not to speak. No one can be forced to salute the flag, for example. Conservative college students […]

The trustees of the State University of New York said yesterday that they planned to freeze tuition next year, despite a deficit of about $77 million at its three teaching […]

When Amber Kline turned 18 in 1992, her father, Philip, went to court in Pennsylvania to terminate the order that required him to pay $375 a month for her support. […]

LEAD: Tuition should be increased this year for New Yorkers at the State University if the Legislature adopts Gov. Mario M. Cuomo's proposed budget, the SUNY board chairman, Donald M. […]