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The College Board says it changed The Big Test to better predict who is college ready but more than 200 colleges decided grades can do the job

Climate activists have been occupying MIT President Rafael Reif’s office for 116 days, calling on administrators to drop stocks in big coal and tar sands and commit to making the Cambridge campus carbon neutral by 2040. Activists say MIT hasn’t fully met any of those demands, but they claim a small win: convincing MIT to […]

The U.S. Education Department is creating a new office to protect federal student loan borrowers and to investigate scams in higher education. It sounds like something out of a Law & Order episode: the Student Aid Enforcement Unit. Among other things, the $13.6 million unit will probe schools that lie to prospective students about their […]

It’s become something of an annual tradition: For the fourth time in five years, Suffolk University is moving to oust its president just eight months after Margaret McKenna took the job. Many of Massachusetts’ movers and shakers are graduates of Suffolk Law School.

As students are increasingly stressed about their finances, debt-free college is all the rage. Politicians are using the concept as an attractive campaign platform, but critics say it makes more sense in theory than in practice.

Strike up the band, two of the country’s most prestigious performing arts colleges – Berklee College of Music and the Boston Conservatory – have agreed to merge. So far, it’s one of the more high profile mergers in higher education.

A new report released Tuesday finds only 14 percent of community college students nationwide transfer to four-year schools and earn a bachelors’ degree within six years. The report by the Community College Research Center at Columbia University’s Teachers College shows while the vast majority of students intend to earn a BA, few succeed. “Too many […]

The admissions committee at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester is expected to review 7,000 applications to fill 700 slots (Courtesy of College of the Holy Cross) Behind closed doors, inside a tiny conference room at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, the admissions committee is preparing to review 23 applications. They’ll […]

Former Newton North principal Jen Price holds up a bejeweled mortar board gifted to her by Patricia Mumba, one of the first students to graduate from the Transitioning Together program. (Lydia Emmanouilidou/WGBH) When 17-year-old Mirabelle Espady first decided to apply to college, she turned to Google. “I was scoping the Internet and just figuring out […]

Marketing majors at the University of New Hampshire are used to making pitches and presentations. But the project they just completed is unlike any other they’ve been assigned in the past.