The post on the Reddit board r/insaneparents was titled “18m in college.” It purported to be a screenshot of a text exchange between a mother and her adult son.

Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids started offering online “competency-based” classes this fall. The program places a higher value on past and current work experience, allowing students to complete their degrees faster.

A. Wayne Johnson, appointed by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, calls the student-loan system ‘fundamentally broken’

Colleges are becoming a battleground in the conflict between federal and state marijuana laws as students who use medical pot challenge decades-old campus drug policies.

For much of the year, Frances Hui followed the Hong Kong demonstrations from her dorm room at Emerson College, feeling guilty that she was safe in Boston while clashes grew increasingly violent for her fellow Hong Kongers.

What’s the fairest way to get at the truth in a sexual misconduct investigation? Courts, college officials, and student advocates are considering how to ensure that disciplinary hearings do more good than harm.

Signs with the same saying have been found at some other colleges, including in 2018 at the University of Vermont and Tufts University in Boston.

College can be hard.

"Wake up at 5 o'clock in the morning to make an 8 o'clock class and then go to work," said Akazha Roberts, a student at Massachusetts Bay Community College in Wellesley.

Three community colleges in rural New York leverage online education to provide experiences for U.S. students and to tap international students.

Commercialisation of academic research has improved, but experts warn of complacency