Schools often use different jargon for the same types of aid or loans. Student advocates offer suggestions on how to figure out what you’ll pay.

Kent Garrett, who with Jeanne Ellsworth wrote “The Last Negroes at Harvard,” talks about how they found the African-American men of the class of 1963.

Millions of Americans are seeing little return from their expensive college degrees -- even in today’s hot jobs market.

Syracuse University students are occupying Crouse Hinds Hall, the admissions building on campus, again for the #NotAgainSU movement.

Loyola New Orleans has an unusual approach to yield.

Colleges and universities generally aren't happy about the endowment tax, but many are paying less than the tens of millions of dollars reported by the country's wealthiest universities, a review finds. And even those ultrawealthy universities might end up paying substantially less.

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