s the dust settles on President Biden’s first attempt to cancel student debt, the Education Department is moving forward on a plan to overhaul how students pay for college. Read more

When College Promise first set out to make postsecondary education as affordable and accessible as public high schools, it started with 53 programs. Today, free college programs have proliferated to 425 different initiatives, spanning all 50 states. Read more

The Associated Press ran a story about Supreme Court justices’ appearances on campuses and how some of those events become fundraisers for institutions Read more

In the run-up to her GCSEs this year, Ruby*, 16, from south London, turned to YouTube for learning because of staff shortages at her school. “We spent a lot of time going [online] and trying to find the person who most knew what they were talking about,” says her mother, Helen. Read more

What can the psychological sciences teach theologians, philosophers — and even parents — to help with their efforts to perpetuate the Christian faith? Read more

More than half of today’s college students are first-generation (56%), according to the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA). As more institutions and nonprofits emphasize incentivizing these cohorts of potential students to enroll, the ceiling will undoubtedly rise. Read more

In recent days, videos of university principals delivering speeches at graduation ceremonies have become popular on the internet. Read more

A university in a prominent Scottish fishing sector cautions its students that a classic Ernest Hemingway novel contains “graphic fishing scenes” that may upset some readers. Read more

A new poll by Gallup has discovered a hard-nosed truth among today’s American public: Confidence in higher education is at an all-time low. Read more

An experiment to encourage more women undergraduates to study economics produced mixed results but raised awareness of gender disparities in the field. Read more