The high cost of college and rising student debt are major topics in the Democratic presidential race. Why are costs rising, and what can a president do to slow them down?

One man believes he missed his chance to play in the National Hockey League because he lost focus after being sexually abused by an Ohio State team doctor. Two former wrestlers say they left their sport because of it and delayed finishing their college degrees. A tennis player says he became so leery of medical exams that he lived with months of pain before getting treatment for a benign testicular tumor.

The Education Department is looking into a tactic that has been used in some Chicago suburbs, in which wealthy parents transfer legal guardianship of their college-bound children to relatives or friends so the teens can claim financial aid.

Tuition-free programs are taking off, but will design flaws be their undoing?

Many career skills can be better and more cheaply taught at two-year schools or on-the-job.

He began the newspaper in 1966 as an eight-page broadsheet designed to provide serious coverage of the nation’s colleges. In 1988 he started The Chronicle of Philanthropy.