Schools, anticipating a deepening economic crisis, had lobbied for more aid from the stimulus bill, but they still welcomed the support.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, using discretion written into the coronavirus stabilization law, is using millions of dollars to pursue long-sought policy goals that Congress has blocked.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan recently announced a plan to make essential pandemic workers in her state eligible for free college.

The lawsuit accuses the Department of Education of applying unconstitutional restrictions on pandemic relief money intended to help students during the Coronavirus outbreak.

In another measure of the massive economic toll of the pandemic on higher education, the resulting shutdowns have been singularly devastating to the college towns in which these campuses are situated.

In the United States, the barrage of advertising from colleges and universities is unrelenting. Colleges seem to advertise nearly everywhere—on TV, on the internet, and even on subway trains.

In the past week, universities have begun releasing yet more details about how they plan to bring students, staff, and faculty members back to campus in the coming weeks and months.

Right now, across the country, millions of high-school graduates and their families are facing an undeniable fact: The pandemic has thrown their plans for the future into complete disarray.

Six challenges colleges and universities face in preparing for the fall

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos says she will force public school superintendents to share coronavirus rescue funds with private schools, some of which are facing ruin.