A Kennedy High School senior has joined an elite league of graduating seniors nationwide boasting college scholarship offers exceeding $1 million.

And, yes, college is worth it for low-income students.

Readers discuss an article about a Hamilton student whose deep distress was known to the college but his parents were not informed.

“Women’s colleges are an American phenomenon”: An interview with Meredith Woo, president of Sweet Briar.

Vocational education won’t succeed so long as society consigns it to second-class status.

Under Betsy DeVos, the Education Department has virtually given up investigating abuses by pro-profit schools.

Interim Michigan State University President John Engler laid out the need to reach a settlement, and the board agreed. “But we haven’t discussed how we’re going to do it,” said one trustee.

And it’s bad for students.

Once the backwater of higher education, online learning is now mainstream. More than 6.3 million students took at least one online class in 2016. That represents 32 percent of all students in higher education.

Advocates prioritize a stronger Pell Grant as the next appropriations process gets under way, but big changes to the program are viewed as unlikely before an update to Higher Education Act.

The University of Kentucky is moving to fire a tenured professor after concluding that he inappropriately required students to buy a self-published book and then profited from the sales, the Lexington Herald-Leader reported.

The principle was once invoked largely by lawyers and legal scholars who worried that colleges were too eager to side with accusers in sexual-assault complaints. Now, though, it has become a far-ranging battle cry.

The New York Times got it wrong, says a researcher cited in an op-ed questioning the value of college. Higher education still helps the poor, just not as much as it does the wealthiest tier.