This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. If you were to judge by public-opinion polling, you might reasonably conclude that Americans have broadly ...

The 2025 college football season came to a controversial conclusion with the release of the final College Football Playoff Rankings on Selection Sunday, when the CFP Selection Committee revealed the ...

As political battles upend college campuses, we asked dozens of students what is on their minds as they plan for the future. Politics was only part of it. By Alyce McFadden Colleges and universities ...

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As a fight over the future of elite higher education consumes university leaders and politicians, most college students live in a very different world with very different challenges. By Alan Blinder ...

Section 1. Purpose and Policy. College sports are a uniquely American institution that provide life-changing educational and leadership-development opportunities to more than 500,000 student-athletes ...

Higher ed leaders and policymakers need to fundamentally rethink the system of who pays for college, and how. It’s no surprise when polls find that a top concern about college is the cost—because it’s ...

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A college graduate earns $32,000 more in a year than a worker with only a high school diploma, according to a new report from Federal Reserve economists. The payoff on a college degree stands near its ...

Social critics, editorial writers and authors are pleading these days for an end to America’s long emphasis on completing four years of college. They have a point. My father had nothing more than a ...

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Many college students don’t have enough time for their studies. This “time poverty,” as we call it, is often due to inadequate child care access or the need to work to pay for college and living ...