About 70% of college students rely on loans to finance their education, according to the Urban Institute. And while federal student loans offer lower rates and more hardship relief options, they're ...

Once maxing out federal financial aid, many students turn to private student loans. They can be used for a variety of ...

Following disruptive pro-Palestinian protests in spring 2024, the federal government, state lawmakers and college officials have imposed sweeping restrictions on student speech, resulting in a wave of ...

The federal government on Monday will resume collecting defaulted student loan payments from millions of people for the first time since the start of the pandemic, officials said. Subscribe to read ...

In 2009, the Gallup Student Poll of young people in grades five through 12 began documenting what it called the student engagement cliff. This cliff describes how student engagement drops dramatically ...

The federal student loan system is a mess right now. "Unprecedented uncertainty," says Beth Akers, a higher education researcher at the conservative-leaning American Enterprise Institute (AEI). "Total ...

As colleges and universities reopen, we should ask what the pro-Palestine protests achieved—and what’s in store for the fall. Mohammad Yassin’s parents had warned him away from politics. His father ...

Protestors gather to demand the release of Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate student and Palestinian activist detained by ICE, in New York City on Mar. 10, 2025. Reporter A husband and ...

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The best private student loans feature low rates and flexible repayment options Federal student loan limits can leave a college funding gap that private student loans can fill. Private loans have ...