Higher education

At 55, Michelle McKenney Jones retired from a 31-year career in corporate human resources and is pursuing her passion for higher education.

"You could teach the entire history of American architectural style just using dormitories," says Carla Yanni of Rutgers University.

"We can't really address the problem without engaging business at full scale," says Columbia Business School's Bruce Usher.

Free tuition programs in two New England states have brought thousands of new students into community college classrooms. But they're also straining some schools' faculty and financial aid staff.

While Vanderbilt offers merit aid and need-based financial aid, its high sticker cost says a lot about college affordability in the U.S.

Schools are seeking government approval to start degree programs after financial aid for incarcerated students was fully reinstated.

Now 60, she learned that her decades-old GPA disqualifies her from receiving federal loans or grants.

Larger endowments — which tend to invest more in private equity and venture capital — didn't do as well as smaller ones that stuck to investment basics.

A regional director of the National Labor Relations Board has ruled that Dartmouth's men's basketball players are employees who can form a union.

A new study finds that "a large fraction — around 20% — of college graduates obtained their degree after age 30."