College Tuition

What should higher education expect from the new Senate Finance Committee chair?

A growing endowment generates wealth. A small part of that wealth is invested to bolster an administration tasked with generating prestige, and, as students rush to take out federal loans, raising tuition and fees.

As Americans' faith in higher education reacts to rising costs, mounting debts, and the growing sense that preparation for the workforce need not take a four-year degree, the post-World War II ambitions of higher education may prove to be a noble failure.

And progress on that front may be slowing.

And what can other federal programs learn from their success?

Blame the high cost of tuition in the U.S. and the 2016 election results.

Regardless of whether states embrace or resist the new tax law, they could lose an opportunity to help thousands of children attend college.

A new study finds that college students are more likely to graduate from schools with higher tuitions and larger spending budgets.

You know tuition is on the rise, but you keep hearing that professors aren’t paid fairly. Where’s the money going?