Chronicle of Higher Education

Republicans and Democrats introduced competing bills on Thursday that seek to avoid a doubling of interest rates on July 1.

Hamid A. Shirvani, in office for less than a year, has come under criticism on campuses and in government circles. The board so far has supported him.

Comments received by a federal agency raise concern about a "domino effect" as student borrowers have to forgo home loans and saving for retirement.

Sixty percent of those working families have no postsecondary education, the lowest percentage among the 50 states.

The Labor Department did not explain why Jane Oates was leaving, but the Job Corps has suffered a series of cost overruns.

While a faculty union rips one university president over MOOC partnerships, a provost at another university defers action until a formal MOOC policy can be written.

Sixty-nine percent of Hispanic students last year immediately enrolled in college, compared with 67 percent of their white peers, a new analysis has found.

Coursera and the textbook-rental site Chegg are teaming up to bring high-quality, mainstream textbooks into the low-cost, online learning environment.

A paper by the New America Foundation identifies institutions that do a good job of enrolling and supporting low-income students—and some that don't.

A group of scholars convened to discuss the lesser-noticed consequences of innovation.

The Obama administration picked nine university groups in a $10-million project to help increase the number of students who graduate with science degrees.

M.R.C. Greenwood, who is 70, says the "Wonder Blunder" fiasco was a strain but not a deciding factor. She plans to return as a professor in the medical school.

An American foundation and the Cuban government are working together to preserve the villa near Havana where the author lived for more than 20 years.

The disparity is largest for blacks, a new study finds. They are twice as likely as white and Asian students to accrue more than $30,000 in graduate debt.

The Education Department imposed an $82,500 penalty, and the university has filed an appeal.

The colleges have low academic expectations, but students still struggle to meet them, in part because high-school standards are too lax in English and too rigid in math.

Glimpses of life in academe from around the world.