Students & Costs

2019

• DeVos Tightens Rules for Forgiving Student Loans (Politico 8/30/19)
• Deporting Harvard Students Was Always the Goal (New Republic 8/28/19)
• Incoming Harvard Freshman Deported After Visa Revoked (Harvard Crimson 8/27/19)
• Trump Appoints Student Loan Industry Executive to Watchdog Job (LAT 8/16/19)
• Report Finds Student Loans Make Up Growing Share of Severely Delinquent Debt (IHE 8/16/19)
• UC and Tuition and Masters Programs... (Cloudminder 8/12/19)
• Admissions Scandal Probe Hasn't Ended Colleges' Unfair Policies (LAT 8/7/19)
• New Data Track Graduates of Six Popular Majors Through Their First Three Jobs (IHE 8/2/19)
• What Do Students Get in Return for Their Tuition? (IHE 7/29/19)
• The Fight for Free College Is Your Fight Too (CHE 7/23/19)
• Tuition-Free College Could Cost Less Than You Think (NYT 7/19/19)
• Audit Finds Weaknesses in UC Udmissions Process, Echoing National Scandal (SFChronicle 7/17/19)
• ‘Everybody Is Panicking’: Thousands of Alaska Students Scramble With Scholarship Money in Jeopardy (CHE 7/16/19)
• Wage-by-Major Statistics: Transparency to What End? (IHE 6/24/19)
• Stop Surveilling Students (IHE 6/9/19)
• Harvard and Chicago Freeze M.B.A. Tuition Increases (IHE 6/7/19)
• As It Strays Further From Its Roots, a UC Education is a Dream Deferred (Daily Bruin 6/6/19)
• California’s State Universities Are a Path to Mobility and Tuition Needs to Be Free (LAT 5/30/19)
• 4 Years of College, $0 in Debt: How Some Countries Make Higher Education Affordable (NYT 5/28/19)
• Trump Official Says No Timeline for Review of Borrower-Defense Claims (IHE 5/23/19)
• Low-Income College Students Are Being Taxed Like Trust-Fund Babies (NYT 5/17/19)
• Gates and State-College Group Co-Chair Postsecondary Value Commission (IHE 5/16/19)
• White House Wants to Use Pell Surplus to Fund NASA (IHE 5/15/19)
• What’s Scarier Than Student Loans? Welcome to the World of Subprime Children (NYT 5/11/19)
• Calif. Lawmakers Consider Legislation Aimed at For-Profits and Online Revenue Sharing (IHE 5/9/19)
• Tuition or Dinner? Nearly Half of College Students Surveyed in a New Report Are Going Hungry (NYT 5/2/19)
• Food & Housing in California Higher Ed, Especially UC (UCLAFA 4/26/19)
• Elizabeth Warren v. InStride: Two Different Paths for Higher Education (IHE 4/25/19)
• Report Finds Out-of-State Student Recruitment Racially, Socioeconomically Biased (Daily Bruin 4/22/19)
• ‘It’s an Aristocracy’: What the Admissions-Bribery Scandal Has Exposed About Class on Campus (CHE 4/17/19)
• New Revelations Link Donations and Admissions at UCLA (IHE 4/15/19)
• UCLA Knew of a Cash-for-admissions Deal, Years Before the Scandal (LAT 4/12/19)
• Hampshire President Quits; Board Votes to Try to Stay Independent (IHE 4/8/19)
• The True Crime in Higher Education: How We’ve Abandoned Public Universities Like CUNY (Daily News 4/2/19)
• The Implicit Punishment of Daring to Go to College When Poor (NYT 3/28/19)
• Public Universities Work Hard to Make Up for Budget Cuts. But In-State Students May Be Paying the Price. (CHE 3/26/19)
• Just Miles From USC and the Admissions Scandal, These Students Sell Food for College Money (LAT 3/15/19)
• The Unmaking of a College: Notes From Inside the Hampshire Runaway Train (The Nation 3/8/19)
• Cal State L.A. Plan to Raise Admissions Standards Faces Pushback From Students and Faculty (LAT 2/25/19)
• To Help Students, Colleges Are Dropping Remedial Courses. Will That Backfire? (CHE 2/18/19)
• I Was a Student Worker Fighting for a $15 Wage. Now, I’m Facing a Criminal Record. (Portside 2/5/19)
• An Incredible Week at Wright State University (Academe Blog 1/27/19)
• California Higher Education Leaders Have High Hopes for Newsom's Spending Plans (EdSource 1/2/19)

2018

• A New Deal for SUNY and CUNY (Academe Blog 12/24/18)
• Historic Latino Student Wave Reshapes Many Colleges. But Access Is Uneven. (WaPo 12/18/18)
• DeVos Forced To Forgive $150M In Student Loans After Losing Court Battle (Talking Points Memo 12/14/18)
• DeVos Restores Authority of For-Profit Accreditor (IHE 11/26/18)
• Student Debt Cancellation: It’s Actually Good (Law and Political Economy 11/21/18)
• Wait, Is Bloomberg’s $1.8-Billion Donation to Johns Hopkins a Good Thing? (CHE 11/19/18)
• Cal State System Sees Record Increases in Graduation Rates (IHE 11/9/18)
• After Tuition Hike, Minnesota Sees Fewer Out-of-state Students (IHE 11/8/18)
• Proportion of State Financial Aid Awarded Based on Financial Need Grows (IHE 11/5/18)
• Growing Number of Public Universities Have Become Less Affordable (IHE 10/31/18)
• Public Flagships Are Offering More Middle-Income Scholarships. What Gives? (CHE 10/23/18)
• U.S. Students Spend More Time Working Paid Jobs Than Going to Class (Bloomberg 9/20/18)
• Don’t Dismiss the Value of Free-College Programs. They Do Help Low-Income Students. (CHE 9/7/18)
• College vs. Paycheck (NYT 8/28/18)
• Student Debt Is Worse for Women (CHE 8/20/18)
• For Many College Students, Hunger Can ‘Make It Hard To Focus In Class’ (Naked Capitalism 8/5/18)
• The Gaping Divide Over Student Debt (New Republic 8/2/18)
• To Fix Student Debt, We Must First Tame Corruption (Roosevelt Institute 8/1/18)
• Devos Proposes Tougher Standard for Borrowers Who Seek Student Loan Relief (IHE 7/26/18)
• California Community Colleges Reach Transfer Agreement With Private Institutions (IHE 7/26/18)
• How Elite Schools Stay So White (NYT 7/24/18)
• Listen to the Regents Meeting of July 18, 2018 (UCLAFA 7/19/18)
• Cal and UCLA offer admissions to fewer in state students this year- UC admissions decisions, latest round... (Cloudminder 7/11/18)
• UC Opens Doors to Record Number of Californians, Led by Growth in Transfer Students (LAT 7/11/18)
• University of Chicago’s Diversity Problem (NYT 6/29/18)
• California High School Grads Increasingly Leave State for College. Here’s Where They Go. (Sac Bee 6/16/18)
• Trump Administration Undermined Student Debt Relief Unit While Claims Mounted, Watchdog Finds (WaPo 6/14/18)
• The Minority-Serving-College Mobility Bump (IHE 6/13/18)
• Letter to Congress (UCLAFA 6/11/18)
• Panelists at International Education Conference Discuss Policy Landscape for Foreign Students and Scholars (IHE 6/1/18)
• Even as CSU Enrollment Has Increased, State General Fund Support Has Declined (Cal Budget 5/18)
• Even as UC Enrollment Has Increased, State General Fund Support Has Declined (Cal Budget 5/18)
• Dept. Of Education Violated Privacy Law For Defrauded Students (TPM 5/27/18)
• Cal Poly SLO | Third of 2018 high school applicants accepted (The Tribune 5/26/18)
• How Student Debt Can Ruin Home Buying Dreams (NYT 5/25/18)
• Jerry Brown: Higher Ed Should Be Like Chipotle (IHE 5/25/18)
• Predatory Colleges, Freed to Fleece Students (NYT 5/22/18)
• Yes, College Is ‘Worth It,’ One Researcher Says. It’s Just Worth More if You’re Rich. (CHE 5/17/18)
• Report Finds Parent PLUS Loans Worsen Outcomes for Poorest Families, Urges Policy Reforms (IHE 5/15/18)
• Class of 2018: College Edition (EPI 5/10/18)
• California Stands to Lose Billions in Future Economic Returns by Continuing to Underfund CSU and UC (CA Budget Center 5/9/18)
• Private Sector Lenders Ready to Expand into Graduate Loan Market (IHE 5/4/18)
• Tuition Freeze Raises Purdue's Profile -- At What Cost? (IHE 4/19/18)
• Colleges Recruit at Richer, Whiter High Schools (NYT 4/13/18)
• To Examine Society and Try to Change it (Public Books 4/9/18)
• The Hidden Crisis on College Campuses: Many Students Don’t Have Enough to Eat (Wa Po 4/3/18)
• State Support for Higher Ed Increased in 2017, but So Did Tuition Revenue (IHE 3/29/18)
• The Tuition Limit and the Coming Crisis of Higher Education (The New Inquiry 3/26/18)
• The Racial Implications of California's Proposed Online University (IHE 3/20/18)
• UC President Napolitano Calls for Guaranteed Admission of All Qualified Community College Students (LAT 3/19/18)
• Board of Regents Votes to Increase Tuition of Nonresident Students (Daily Bruin 3/15/18)
• Ghosting the Region II: Rural Students Deserve Better (Academe Blog 3/13/18)
• The Racial Dimension of Student Debt (Down With Tyranny 3/12/18)
• Betsy Devos Just Tried to Take Away the Ability of States to Crack Down on Abusive Student Debt Collectors (The Intercept 3/9/18)
• Whatever Happened to the Polytechnics? Part 2 (Andrew McGettigan 2/28/18)
• A Serious Push for Free College in California (The Nation 2/6/18)
• Trump University: Court Upholds $25m Settlement to Give Students' Money Back (Guardian 2/6/18)
• Fee Strike (Critical Legal Thinking 2/2/18)
• 3 Million Americans Live in Higher Education Deserts (IHE 2/2/18)
• In West Virginia, Free Community College Would Come With a Drug Test (CHE 2/1/18)
• Students With Disabilities Are Largely Ignored by Colleges’ Assault Prevention, Study Finds (CHE 1/31/18)
• Under Pressure, UC Regents Delay Vote to Raise Tuition and Fees (LAT 1/24/18)
• Protests Decry USC Administrators' Takeover of Student-Funded Scholarship Program (LAT 1/24/18)
• NSF Report Documents Declines in International Enrollments After Years of Growth (IHE 1/22/18)
• It’s Hard to Study if You’re Hungry (NYT 1/14/18)
• Napolitano Warns on DACA, Students Warn on their Housing (Cloudminder 1/3/18)
• As Flow of Foreign Students Wanes, U.S. Universities Feel the Sting (NYT 1/2/18)

2017

• Betsy DeVos’s Gut Punch to Defrauded Students (New Republic 12/27/17)
• Education Department Sets Up Standard for Partial Relief of Defrauded Borrowers (IHE 12/21/17)
• Final Tax Bill Would Spare Some Higher-Ed Worries, but Could Lead to State Budget Cuts (CHE 12/15/17)
• Guess Which Schools and Degrees Produce the Most Student Loan Defaults? Hint: It’s Not the Humanities (Naked Capitalism 12/15/17)
• California Sues Trump Administration Over Corinthian Students' Unresolved Debt Relief Claims (LAT 12/14/17)
• House GOP Pushes Innovation and Deregulation with Higher Education Act Overhaul (IHE 12/14/17)
• Some Tax-Bill Provisions Opposed by Higher Ed Dropped in Conference Negotiations (IHE 12/14/17)
• Uncertainty for Grad Students as Tax Bill Goes to Conference (IHE 12/6/17)
• New Report Says Improving Educational Quality, Completion and Increasing Affordability is Everyone's Business (IHE 11/30/17)
• U.S. House Committee Leaks Summary of Broad Plan for Reauthorizing the Higher Education Act (IHE 11/30/17)
• The Grad Tax Is an Assault on the Public Good (Academe Blog 11/29/17)
• Uncertain Political Environment for Higher Ed (UCLAFA 11/29/17)
• College Tuition May be Source of Conflict in Next State Budget (KPCC 11/28/17)
• Tax News (UCLAFA 11/27/17)
• Philadelphia Fed Study Debunks Main Argument for Student Debt Slavery (Naked Capitalism 11/22/17)
• When Unpaid Student Loan Bills Mean You Can No Longer Work (NYT 11/18/17)
• GOP Bill Would Force Students Who Don’t Graduate to Repay Pell Grants (CHE 11/17/17)
• Faculty Want Answers on Chicago City Colleges Study (IHE 11/14/17)
• How the Ivy League Hides Its Cash (NYT 11/10/17)
• In Trump country, a University Confronts its Skeptics (Politico 11/9/17)
• How the GOP Tax Plan Could Hurt Graduate Students — and American Research (CHE 11/7/17)
• Grad Students and Policy Experts Say Taxing Graduate Students' Tuition Waivers w]Would Spell Disaster (IHE 11/7/17)
• Growing Reliance on Part-Time Faculty Shortchanges Instructors, Students (Daily Bruin 10/31/17)
• A Student Loan Nightmare: The Teacher in the Wrong Payment Plan (NYT 10/27/17)
• No Profit in Betsy DeVos (NYT 10/27/17)
• Report Criticizes Public Universities for Catering to Wealthy Students (IHE 10/26/17)
• DeVos Delays Obama-Era Student Loan Protections Amid Writing New Rules (TPM 10/24/17)
• New Federal Data Show a Student Loan Crisis for African American Borrowers (Center for American Progress 10/16/17)
• California May Fund First Year of Community College (IHE 10/16/17)
• Jerry Brown Signs Bill to Make Community College Free Statewide For First Year (SFGate 10/13/17)
• What Berkeley’s $800,000 Did — and Didn’t — Buy During ‘Free Speech Week’ (CHE 10/10/17)
• Suggested International Students Could Be Reported to ICE if They Unionized (Nation 10/5/17)
• New Federal Data on Student Borrowing, Repayment and Default (IHE 10/5/17)
• Veterans Agency Seeks to Scrap Ethics Law on For-Profit Colleges (NYT 9/29/17)
• After White Supremacists Marched Through Campus, UVA Grapples With Change (Huff Po 9/26/17)
• Education Department Releases Interim Directions for Title IX Compliance (IHE 9/25/17)
• Two Takes on DeVos’s Speech on Title IX (Academe Blog 9/11/17)
• AAUP Denounces Decision to End DACA Program (Academe Blog 9/5/17)
• UC President Napolitano Denounces Decision to End DACA Program, Calls on Congress to Make Protections Permanent (UC 9/5/17)
• A Brown v. Board for Higher Ed (Boston Review 9/1/17)
• Trump Administration Picks Former Official at For-Profit DeVry University to Head Student Aid Enforcement Unit (LAT 8/31/17)
• The Biggest Misconception About Today’s College Students (NYT 8/28/17)
• California's Public Universities Struggle with Rising College Eligibility (EdSource 8/17/17)
• Rosen's Ring of Truth? (IHE 8/11/17)
• Universities in VA Hit Students With Whopping Collection Fees For Unpaid Tuition (Wa Po 8/5/17)
• Outside of Elite Colleges, Affirmative Action Is Already Disappearing (Slate 8/3/17)
• Wait, Will Anyone Investigate Legacy Admissions? (CHE 8/3/17)
• Justice Department Will Seek to Sue Colleges Over Affirmative Action (IHE 8/2/17)
• Ting Rips UC For Withdrawing Admission to Hundreds at Irvine (SF Gate 7/31/17)
• UC Irvine is Under Fire for Rescinding 500 Admission Offers Two Months Before Fall Term Begins (LAT 7/28/17)
• Somewhere Between a Jeremiad and a Eulogy (Modern Age 7/17)
• New Study Attempts to Show How Much State Funding Cuts Push Up Tuition (IHE 7/24/17)
• Fed Report Says Tuition Increases Hurt Later Homeownership (Mother Jones 7/18/17)
• DeVos Is Discarding College Policies That New Evidence Shows Are Effective (NYT 6/30/17)
• Why the US Needs to Revive a Massive Student Movement: The Case of Higher Education in California (Truthout 6/5/17)
• Endgames | Confessions of a Community College Dean (IHE 5/30/17)
• Top Colleges Doing the Most for the American Dream (NYT 5/25/17)
• White House Budget Includes Tens of Billions in Cuts to Student Aid and Research (IHE 5/24/17)
• Inequality University (Jacobin 5/22/17)
• Betsy DeVos Hits Hard Reset on Student Loan Servicing Contracts (Wa Po 5/19/17)
• CFA Statement on Detention of CSULA Student Activist (Academe Blog 5/19/17)
• Reported Details of Trump Budget Include Big Cuts to Financial Aid (IHE 5/19/17)
• On the Yale University Unionization Efforts (LARB 5/16/17)
• Requiem for the Public University (Campaign for the Public University 5/2/17)
• There’s a Reason the Purdue-Kaplan Deal Sounds Too Good to Be True (CHE 4/30/17)
• Dozens of Colleges’ Upward Bound Applications Are Denied for Failing to Dot Every I (CHE 4/26/17)
• CA Assembly Speaker Rendon Calls for UC Tuition Hike Reversal (Sac Bee 4/26/17)
• After Scathing UC Audit, California Leaders Look to Stop Recent Tuition Hike (SD Union Tribune 4/26/17)
• Faculty Members at Whitman Fight for More Say in How the Administration Raises Its Student-Faculty Ratio (IHE 4/20/17)
• UC: Locals vs. the Out-of-Staters (Capitol Weekly 4/12/17)
• UC Ignoring its Own Report on Nonresident Enrollment (Cloudminder 4/12/17)
• New York State Reaches Deal to Provide Free Tuition for SUNY and CUNY Students (IHE 4/10/17)
• Loans ‘Designed to Fail’: States Say Navient Preyed on Students (NYT 4/9/17)
• New York Set to Become First State to Offer Free Tuition at Public Four-Year Colleges (Wa Po 4/8/17)
• Effort to Restore California’s Master Plan Advances (Academe Blog 4/7/17)
• Student Loan Forgiveness Program Approval Letters May Be Invalid, Education Dept. Says (NYT 3/30/17)
• Why Are Democrats Fighting Over Free College? (New Republic 3/29/17)
• White House Calls for More Cuts to Pell (IHE 3/29/17)
• At College, a Guided Path on Which to Find Oneself (NYT 3/28/17)
• Elite Higher Ed: A Bad Example for Good Leaders (IHE 3/26/17)
• Devos-Style School Privatization is Surging in the States (New Republic 3/22/17)
• CA Bill Would Tax Millionaires to Pay for Free College Tuition (Sac Bee 3/20/17)
• CUNY to Revamp Remedial Programs, Hoping to Lift Graduation Rates (NYT 3/19/17)
• The Student Debt Crisis and Its Deniers (Public Books 3/15/17)
• Study Shows Widespread Food and Housing Insecurity for Students (IHE 3/15/17)
• California Democrats Unveil a Sweeping Financial Aid Plan to Help Students Avoid Debt (LAT 3/13/17)
• UC Proposes Its First Enrollment Cap — 20% — On Out-Of-State Students (LAT 3/6/17)
• In Higher Ed, Loyalty Is a One-Way Street (IHE 3/6/17)
• In Defense of the Lecture (Jacobin 2/26/17)
• Court Upholds UC Financial Aid to Undocumented Students (UCLAFA 2/23/17)
• Financial Insecurity Could Keep Some Community College Students From Completing (IHE 2/21/17)
• Meritocratic Myths (Jacobin 2/18/17)
• A Troubling Assault on Student Rights at Fordham (Academe Blog 2/16/17)
• Universities Cite 'Damaging Effects' of Trump Order (IHE 2/14/17)
• Haunted by Student Debt Past Age 50 (NYT 2/13/17)
• Campus Politics in the Age of Trump (NYT 2/10/17)
• Here's What Would it Take to Give California Students a Debt-Free College Education (LAT 2/1/17)
• If Brown phases out college scholarships for middle-class students, stressed parents wonder: 'How are we going to make this work?' (LAT 1/24/17)
• Obama Official: DACA Students Will Soon Be Deported Under Trump (Sac Bee 1/21/17)
• In Navient Lawsuits, Unsettling Echoes of Past Lending Crisis (NYT 1/19/17)
• UC Needs a Tuition Hike, But Also a Clearer Vision of its Identity (LAT 1/16/17)
• Rhode Island Governor Proposes Two Free Years of Public Higher Education (IHE 1/16/17)
• Equity, Interrupted: How California is Cheating Its Future (Academe Blog 1/12/17)
• Opposition, real reasons, 'mrakleaks'?, More (Cloudminder 1/11/17)
• UC Tuition Hikes? First Justify Your Administrative Bloat (SD Union Tribune 1/6/17)
• The Problems With the New York Tuition-Free Public College Plan (IHE 1/6/17)
• University of California Proposes 3 Percent Tuition Increase (Sac Bee 1/4/17)
• Concerns Persist About Use of DREAMers' Data (IHE 1/4/17)
• New York's Tuition-Free Plan Sparks Debate (IHE 1/4/17)
• New York Governor Announces Free-College Plan (CHE 1/3/17)
• CSU Signs Deal to Record, Broadcast Classroom Lectures (SF Examiner 1/2/17)

2016

• Average Student Debt by State (Academe Blog 12/29/16)
• My College Students Aren’t “Snowflakes” — They’re Tougher Than Their Critics Could Imagine (Salon 12/18/16)
• Effort Launches to Boost Low-Income Enrollment at Top Colleges (IHE 12/13/16)
• UC Berkeley Overcrowding: Students Studying in San Francisco, Living at Mills College (Mercury News 12/12/16)
• The Death of the Faculty Role (Opseu 558 12/11/16)
• State Court Upholds UC Tuition, Aid For Immigrants Here Illegally (SFGate 12/10/16)
• Growing Gap Between Flagship State Universities & Public Colleges (Academe Blog 12/9/16)
• Ph.D. Recipients Increase in Number, Job Prospects Vary, New U.S. Data Show (IHE 12/9/16)
• Californians Rate Public Colleges Highly and Back Giving Them More State Dollars, Survey Shows (LAT 12/8/16)
• Brexit Could See EU Student Numbers Nose Dive, Cambridge Warns (Guardian 12/8/16)
• Columbia Provost Coatsworth Escalates Assault on Grad Student Union Rights (Academe Blog 12/2/16)
• Threats to the Independence of Student Media (AAUP 12/16)
• College Ratings and Rankings: The Debate Continues (Academe Blog 12/1/16)
• The Truth About Young Immigrants and DACA (NYT 11/30/16)
• Sanctuary Campuses Won't Provide Real Sanctuary for Immigrant Students (IHE 11/29/16)
• New Analysis Shows High Debt Levels For Some Humanities Ph.D.s and No Debt For Others (IHE 11/28/16)
• Defense of Undocumented and other Vulnerable Categories of Students (CUCFA 11/23/16)
• AAUP Condemns Hate Crimes, Endorses Campus Sanctuary Movement (IHE 11/23/16)
• As College Costs Rise, So Do the Number of Administrators (Hechinger Report 11/17/16)
• UC and Cal State Will Consider the First Tuition Hikes in Six Years (LAT 11/14/16)
• Undocumented Students Hope for University's Protection Under Trump (Guardian 11/13/16)
• With Trump’s Rise, Undocumented Students Fear for Their Futures (CHE 11/11/16)
• Walls or Bridges (Cloudminder 11/10/16)
• A CUNY Student Bill of Rights (Academe Blog 11/3/16)
• College Board's Two Annual Reports On Tuition Hikes and Financial Aid Trends Nationally (Cloudminder 10/26/16)
• Tuition and Fees, 1998-99 Through 2016-17 (CHE 10/26/16)
• Brookings Study Finds Growing Disparities in Student Loan Debt Between Black and White Graduates (IHE 10/21/16)
• Trepidation at City College in Wake of President’s Abrupt Exit (NYT 10/13/16)
• Neoliberalism's Decades-Long Attack on Public Universities (Truth=Out 10/12/16)
• After Years of Neglect, Public Higher Education is at a Tipping Point (WaPo 10/7/16)
• Delay (UCLAFA 10/6/16)
• Profiting off Debt (Jacobin 9/29/16)
• Sara Goldrick-Rab Extended Interview (The Daily Show 9/27/16)
• UC Increases California Enrollments but Inequities Continue (Changing Universities 9/22/16)
• Eligible But Got Nothing: Hundreds of Thousands of People with Disabilities Blocked from College Aid (Hechinger Report 9/22/16)
• Why College Rankings Are a Joke (NYT 9/17/16)
• Michigan—Like Ohio, But Somewhat Worse (Academe Blog 9/9/16)
• The Right’s War on College: “Starving the Beast” Exposes the Fight to Destroy America’s Great Public Universities (Salon 9/9/16)
• A Lockout at LIU (The Atlantic 9/7/16)
• Lockout Lessons (Academe Blog 9/4/16)
• Partisan Politics is Undermining the ‘Public Ivies’ (News Observer 9/3/16)
• In a Major Win For Teachers Unions, California Supreme Court Lets Teacher Tenure Ruling Stand (LAT 8/23/16)
• Student Demands Equal Pay for Full-Time and Student Workers (Daily Bruin 8/21/16)
• South African Universities Poised for Another Battle on Tuition (IHE for THE 8/18/16)
• Student Housing Costs and Corporate Profits (Academe Blog 8/8/16)
• How Much Does Living Off-Campus Cost? Who Knows? (NYT 8/5/16)
• Not Just Students Are Leaving Illinois (Academe Blog 8/4/16)
• More Than 30 Fake UK Universities Closed by Watchdog (Guardian 8/2/16)
• Do State Subsidies for Public Universities Favor the Affluent? (UCLAFA 7/28/16)
• Who’s Fighting for College for the Forgotten Majority? (Hechinger Report 7/27/16)
• The Coming Conflict Over a Free CSU (Fox & Hounds 7/15/16)
• Four in 10 UC Students Do Not Have a Consistent Source of High-Quality, Nutritious Food, Survey Says (LAT 7/13/16)
• Our Hungry, Homeless Students (Academe Blog 7/12/16)
• Public Colleges Chase Out-of-State Students, and Tuition (NYT 7/7/16)
• In New Jersey Student Loan Program, Even Death May Not Bring a Reprieve (NYT 7/3/16)
• Who's Getting Rich Off Your Student Loans? (Reveal 7/2/16)
• Adjunct Professorships Hurt Students and Educators Alike. Is it Time to Abandon Tenure? (Salon 6/30/16)
• Behind the Plummeting Rankings and Defections of Faculty and MFA Students at USC's Roski Art School (LAT 6/27/16)
• An Alarming Number Of Cal State Students Go Hungry, And The University Is Trying To Find Ways To Help (Huff Po 6/21/16)
• New California Budget Increases Higher Education Funding, On One Condition (IHE 6/17/16)
• U.S. Proposes Easier Path to Debt Relief for Defrauded Students (CHE 6/13/16)
• California Budget Deal Seeks Nonresident Enrollment Cap at UC (Sac Bee 6/10/16)
• The Important Role Faculty Members Play in Advising Students (IHE 6/10/16)
• A University of California, for California (Capital & Main 6/9/16)
• University of Chicago Cost Cutting Draws Objections (IHE 6/9/16)
• On Eve of Graduation, University of Chicago Student President Faces Expulsion (NYT 6/8/16)
• State Must Increase Funding to Grow UC Enrollment by 20,000 (Hare and Chalfant, SF Chron 6/8/16)
• HBCUs Cut From North Carolina $500 Tuition Bill (IHE 6/6/16)
• State Lawmakers Vote to Cap Nonresident Enrollment at UC Schools (LAT 6/4/16)
• Arizona Higher Ed Board Retaliated Against Student Group, Court Rules (IHE 6/2/16)
• Hidden Side of the College Dream: Mediocre Graduation Rates (NYT 6/1/16)
• Dreams Stall as CUNY, New York City’s Engine of Mobility, Sputters (NYT 5/28/16)
• The Elephant in the Seminar Room: Should the PhD Be Saved? (LARB 5/26/16)
• New Proposals to Combat Food Insecurity on Campuses (Wisconsin Hope Lab 5/19/16)
• Proposed HBCU Tuition Cuts Draw Criticism in North Carolina (IHE 5/18/16)
• The Challengers (and Challenges) in Higher Education Market Reform (Wonkhe 5/17/16)
• The Customer is Always Ripe – For Fleecing (Guardian 5/16/16)
• Trump's Campaign Co-Chair Describes Higher Education Policies Being Developed (IHE 5/13/16)
• Can Graduate Students Unionize? The Government Can’t Decide (Bloomberg 5/12/16)
• The Entrepreneurship Racket (Jacobin 5/12/16)
• UW Struggle: Goodwill Sucking (Chuck Rybak 5/11/16)
• Backer of Student Loans Pivots in Push to Reshape Higher Education (CHE 5/11/16)
• Sacramento Lawmaker Would Expand UC Resident Enrollment by 30,000 (Sac Bee 5/10/16)
• It’s a Tough Job Market for the Young Without College Degrees (NYT 5/10/16)
• Some UC Regents Fret that Critical State Audit Resulted in Unfair Attacks on Out-of-State Students (LAT 5/10/16)
• Some UC Majors See Balance Shift Toward Out-of-State Students (Sac Bee 5/4/16)
• At Small Colleges, Harsh Lessons About Cash Flow (NYT 4/29/16)
• Fund the Freeze (Academe Blog 4/29/16)
• On the University of California, I: The Funding Challenge (Academe Blog 4/13/16)
• Who's Responsible for the Demise of America's Public Research Universities? (The Atlantic 4/10/16)
• UC Needs Funds, Not Limits (Fox & Hounds 4/8/16)
• Federal Spending Protects Most Vulnerable Students from State Disinvestment, Study Finds (IHE 4/7/16)
• Why Upperclassmen Lose Financial Aid (NYT 4/6/16)
• Bernie Sanders is Right: Make Public Colleges Tuition-Free (Journal Sentinel 4/4/16)
• The State Audit of the UC: The Problem with Non-Resident Admissions (Changing Universities 3/29/16)
• WMU-AAUP on State Divestment From Higher Education (Academe Blog 3/28/16)
• Cuomo Faces Loud Backlash Over Push to Cut State’s CUNY Funding (NYT 3/24/16)
• The Significant Differences Between Hillary's and Bernie's Higher Ed Plans (IHE 3/24/16)
• Update on the Wesleyan Argus Funding Fight (Student Activism 3/22/16)
• Illinois Cuts off Funding for its Public Universities (Marketplace 3/18/16)
• No Out-of-State Enrollment Cap (UCLAFA 3/16/16)
• The Mental and Academic Costs of Campus Activism (CHE 3/16/16)
• Why Colleges use Financial Aid to Attract Wealthier Students (IHE 3/16/16)
• UC President Janet Napolitano: Davis Chancellor Should Stay Despite Mistake (Sac Bee 3/9/16)
• Tax Trouble for International Graduate Employees Across US Campuses (Academe Blog 3/7/16)
• Corporatizers Gone Wild! (Academe Blog 3/5/16)
• UC Davis Chancellor Apologizes, Will Donate Textbook Stock to Student Scholarships (Sac Bee 3/4/16)
• UC Davis Chancellor Received $420,000 on Book Publisher’s Board (Sac Bee 3/3/16)
• UC Berkeley Reclassifies Master’s Degrees, Raises Tuition (SF Chronicle 3/4/16)
• Elizabeth Warren Questions Education Department's Competence Over Student Loan Fraud (Huff Po 3/4/16)
• UC Berkeley Adds 750 Additional Students With No Concrete Plans to Increase Academic Infrastructure (Daily Cal 3/2/16)
• Scrambled Higher Ed, Scrambled Elections (Cloudminder 3/2/16)
• President Quits at Mount St. Mary's (IHE 3/1/16)
• No, Virginia, The Truth Does Not Always Lie in the Middle (IHE 3/1/16)
• In Ohio, More Higher-Ed “Innovation” (Academe Blog 2/25/16)
• Illinois Governor Vetoes Bill With Funds for Higher Ed (IHE 2/22/16)
• How to Help More College Students Graduate (NYT 2/19/16)
• The Hidden Hunger Problem on Campus (Democracy Journal 2/18/16)
• Money Matters (Sara Goldrick-Rab 2/16/16)
• Cardinal Newman and Simon Newman's Similar Challenge (IHE 2/16/16)
• Students Aren't Coddled. They're Defeated. (IHE 2/16/16)
• End of the Freeze (UCLAFA 2/15/16)
• ?Freedom of Speech v. Civility (The Nation 2/11/16)
• Programs Have Success Helping Low-Income Students Graduate (IHE 2/8/16)
• Public Universities Seek to Redesign First-Year Experience (IHE 2/1/16)
• Tuition Moves and Resident and Non Resident Enrollment Moves in Public Higher Ed (Cloudminder 1/31/16)
• #NewHigherEdRules (Sara Goldrick-Rab 1/28/16)
• Disabled Students Like Me Rely on Funding at Uni. Now it's Been Cut (Guardian 1/27/16)
• Bill would cap out-of-state enrollment at University of California (Sac Bee 1/26/16)
• London Students Refuse to Pay Rent and Demand 40% Cut (Guardian 1/25/16)
• UC Officials Scramble to Prep Housing for Biggest Boost in California Students in Years (LAT 1/20/16)
• White House Plan to Restore Year-Round Pell Grants and Create a New Bonus (IHE 1/19/16)
• Obama Comments to Southern U Student Set Off Debate on President and Black Colleges (IHE 1/18/16)
• UC Enrollment of Californians Dropped Last Year - again (Cloudminder 1/15/16)
• Plan to End Student Grants Without Commons Vote Outrages Opposition (Guardian 1/13/16)
• Free College and Student Debt (Synapse 1/7/16)
• Who are the spongers now? (LARB 1/16)
• China Downturn, Increased Competition Could Affect Supply of Foreign Students (Hechinger Report 1/4/16)
• As Justices Weigh Affirmative Action, Michigan Offers an Alternative (NYT 1/4/16)

2015

• The Supreme Court’s Diversity Dilemma (NYT 12/24/15)
• When You Weren't Paying Attention Congress Shook Up The Student Loan Market (Huff Po 12/23/15)
• The New College Normal: Full-Time Jobs And Night Classes (Huff Po 12/21/15)
• University of Wisconsin Ups its Merit Aid in an Effort to Better Compete with Peers (IHE 12/18/15)
• Black Students Are Being Shut Out Of Top Public Colleges (Huff Po 12/18/15)
• Here's The Devastating Way Our College System Fails Poor Kids (Huff Po 12/17/15)
• A University Funding System Designed to Crush the Aspirations of the Poor (Guardian 12/15/15)
• Missouri Lawmaker Wants To Revoke Scholarships If Athletes Protest (HuffPo 12/15/15)
• UC Draws Criticism After Extending its Transfer Application Deadline (LAT 12/13/15)
• Meal Plan Costs Tick Upward as Students Pay for More Than Food (NYT 12/5/15)
• Hungry, Homeless and in College (NYT 12/4/15)
• Why It's So Hard for In-State Students to Get Into a UC—and even California State—School These Days (The Atlantic 12/1/15)
• Why Students Foot the Bill for College Sports, and How Some are Fighting Back (Wash Po 11/30/15)
• Video DC on Higher Ed and Minority Students (Cloudminder 11/29/15)
• Student Debt in America: Lend With a Smile, Collect With a Fist (NYT 11/27/15)
• Study Finds Drop in Percentage of Low-Income Students Enrolling in College (IHE 11/25/15)
• How much more budget wizardry will we demand of UC? (Sac Bee 11/19/15)
• UC Regents Approve Plan to Add 10,000 In-State Undergraduate Students by 2018 (LAT 11/19/15)
• For Students, Expectations About Academic Rigor Are Far From Universal (CHE 11/19/15)
• Moody's Projects Weak Growth in Net Tuition Revenue (IHE 11/19/15)
• College Completion Rates Decline More Rapidly (IHE 11/17/15)
• Students Plan Further Protests Against Higher Education Reforms (Guardian 11/15/15)
• #MillionStudentMarch
• Racial Disparities in Higher Education: an Overview (CHE 11/10/15)
• UC Seeks to Boost Californians' Enrollment by 10,000 by 2018 (LAT 11/9/15)
• UC Budget Plan Will Provide for 10,000 More California Students (UC 11/9/15)
• Cal State Fullerton Upholds Reprimand for Professor Who Wouldn't Assign $180 Textbook (IHE 11/9/15)
• Study Questions Whether Elite College Courses Are of Higher Quality Than Others (IHE 11/9/15)
• Colleges That Shortchange Adjuncts are Ultimately Compromising Students (IHE 11/5/15)
• New College Board Report Shows Continued Borrowing Decline and Slow Net Price Increase (IHE 11/4/15)
• Study Suggests Instructional Spending Leads to Better Student Employment Outcomes (IHE 11/2/15)
• Why You Can Get a Free College Education in Germany But Not in California (LAT 10/29/15)
• Cal State Panel Proposes Annual Tuition Hikes of About 2% (LAT 10/28/15)
• The Law School Debt Crisis (NYT 10/24/15)
• UC Plans to Expand Enrollment of California Undergrads Next Year (LAT 10/21/15)
• Lecture Me. Really. (NYT 10/17/15)
• A Student Loan System Stacked Against the Borrower (NYT 10/9/15)
• U. of Wisconsin Lifts Cap on Out-of-State Undergraduates (CHE 10/9/15)
• Defense Department Suspends U. of Phoenix From Its Tuition Assistance Program (CHE 10/8/15)
• UC Students, Administrators Come to Preliminary Agreement on Tuition Hike Policy (Daily Cal 10/7/15)
• Student Debt Is Worse Than You Think (NYT 10/7/15)
• The University of Madison? (Sara Goldrick-Rab 10/7/15)
• Obama Administration Backs Easier Bankruptcy Path for Private Student Loans (CHE 10/2/15)
• College Rankings Fail to Measure the Influence of the Institution (NYT 10/1/15)
• Perkins Loan Program, a Federal Stalwart Since 1958, Meets Its Demise (CHE 10/1/15)
• A Study in Total Depravity (The Baffler No. 28 2015)
• A Newspaper Report on Administrative Bloat: Some Remarks on the Sum of the Details and on Some of the Specific Details (Academe Blog 9/20/15)
• The Nation’s Wealthiest Colleges are Saddling its Poorest Students With Debt (Salon 9/20/15)
• New Paper Argues for More Investment in Instruction in Higher Education (IHE 9/17/15)
• U. of Georgia Bets $4.4 Million That Small Classes Can Bolster Learning (CHE 9/8/15)
• Soaring Student Loan Debt Poses Risk to Nation's Future Economic Growth (LAT 9/5/15)
• Numbers of Freshmen From Outside California Increase at Three UC Campuses (LAT 9/3/15)
• Have I Become an Educated Rita? (Anonymous 9/2/15)
• New York Attorney General Reaches Deal to End Litigation at Cooper Union (NYT 9/1/15)
• UC Fails to Reach $25 Million Incentive to Add Californians (SF Gate 8/27/15)
• Tuition Discounting Grows at Private Colleges and Universities (IHE 8/25/15)
• The ‘Flipped Classroom’ is Professional Suicide (Kernel 8/23/15)
• Trends in Federal Student Loan and Pell Grant Awards (Robert Kelchen 8/22/15)
• College Students Move Off Campus as Room and Board Costs Rise (LAT 8/16/15)
• Student Loan Delinquencies Jump As Crisis Spreads (HuffPo 8/13/15)
• Democrats Offer Ways to Make College Affordable (NYT 8/10/15)
• Tuition Fees Are a Consumerist Fallacy. Our Students Deserve Better (Stefan Collini, Guardian 8/5/15)
• Senate Democrats Pan Education Department Audit Of Loans to Troops (Huff Po 8/5/15)
• Some College Students on Financial Aid Don't Get it In Time to Pay Fees (LAT 8/3/15)
• Purdue, With Tuition Freeze, Now Majority Out-of-State (IHE 8/3/15)
• Rise in College Food Banks Linked to the Economy and Campus Demographics (LAT 8/3/15)
• How Big Corporations Are Starving Public Schools of Billions of Dollars (Naked Capitalism 7/29/15)
• Obama's Ed Chief: $1.4 Trillion In Student Debt Isn't That Big Of A Deal (Huff Po 7/28/15)
• Judges Rebuke Limits on Wiping Out Student Loan Debt (NYT 7/17/15)
• Bill Limiting Out-Of-State UC Admissions and Financial Aid Has First Hearing (Sac Bee 7/14/15)
• The LAO Is Getting Higher Ed Wrong (Fox and Hounds 7/14/15)
• A University Divided: Separate and Unequal (Changing Universities 7/9/15)
• UC and CCC Attempts At Streamlining Transfers (Cloudminder 7/8/15)
• UC Admits Record Number of Out-Of-State Freshmen (SF Gate 7/2/15)
• Supreme Court Will Once Again Consider Affirmative Action in College Admissions (IHE 6/30/15)
• Faculty Members Criticize Proposed Changes to Gen Ed Accreditation Standards for Engineers (INE 6/26/15)
• Are Lazy Rivers and Climbing Walls Driving Up The Cost of College? (IHE 6/15/15)
• New Funding Model Devalues Graduate Research (Needs Attention 6/13/15)
• Study: U.S. Higher Education Receives More From Federal than State Governments (IHE 6/12/15)
• In Heated State-Budget Fights, Students Strive to Be Heard (CHE 6/10/15)
• State Appeals Court Backs CUNY on Pathways (IHE 6/10/15)
• College is not a commodity. Stop treating it like one. (Wa Po 6/9/15)
• Barnard College, After Much Discussion, Decides to Accept Transgender Women (NYT 6/4/15)
• A better PACE (Gainesville 6/4/15)
• For the Poor, the Graduation Gap Is Even Wider Than the Enrollment Gap (NYT 6/2/15)
• Stanford Political Science Department Overhauls Undergraduate Major (IHE 5/29/15)
• Website Publicizes Actions of Politically Active College Students (abc7 5/29/15)
• Fraternities’ Ranks Swell at a Time of Intense Public Scrutiny (CHE 5/28/15)
• Despite an Improving Economy, Young Grads Still Face an Uphill Climb (Economic Policy Institute 5/27/15)
• UF Online Program Struggles to Gain Acceptance (Gainesville 5/26/15)
• UC Law Students Celebrate Exemption from Supplemental Fee Increases (LAT 5/25/15)
• Graduates May Face Tougher Loan Terms (BBC 5/21/15)
• This Is What Happens When You Slash Funding for Public Universities (Nation 5/19/15)
• Minorities and Poor College Students are Shouldering the Most Student Debt (Danielle Douglas-Gabriel 5/19/15)
• The Challenge of the First-Generation Student (CHE 5/18/15)
• Report Criticizes Public Colleges on Use of Funds to Recruit Out-of-State Students (IHE 5/18/15)
• Chancellor Yang, UCSB Meet Demands of Sexual Assault Survivors After 13-Hour Sit-In (The Bottom Line 5/15/15)
• Entire USC First-Year MFA Class is Dropping Out (Art & Education 5/15/15)
• Years of Cuts Threaten to Put College Out of Reach for More Students (CBPP 5/13/15)
• Kids Today: A Response to Mark Bauerlein (IHE 5/10/15)
• Selling (Out) the Good Old Days (Mark Bauerlein 5/10/15)
• The Hidden Portion of Student-Loan Debt (CHE 5/8/15)
• Some Public Universities are Charging Differentiated Tuition Rates or Raising Fees for International Students (IHE 5/8/15)
• Report Says Administrative Bloat, Construction Booms not Largely Responsible for Tuition Increases (IHE 5/5/15)
• NCAA's Latest Argument Against Paying Players Is 'Nonsense,' Economists Say (Huff Po 5/5/15)
• Republicans Agree on Spending Plan That Could Cut Student-Aid Money (CHE 5/1/15)
• Too many California students are being shut out of UC (Sac Bee 4/30/15)
• Elizabeth Warren Slams the Education Department for Failing Student Borrowers (The Nation 4/28/15)
• College for the Masses (NYT 4/24/15)
• UW Tuition: Going the Wrong Way (Language Politics 4/17/15)
• Overview of Cal Grants (LAO 4/17/15)
• Colleges Grapple with Cheating in the Digital Age (LAT 4/16/15)
• Leaders of Australian Universities see Pay Rise as they Seek More Tuition Funds (IHE 4/15/15)
• State Spending on Higher Education Shows 'Sizable' Increase (CHE 4/13/15)
• Should Students Sit on Sexual Assault Panels? (NYT 4/10/15)
• Some Gain, Others Fall in Florida's Performance-Based Funding System (IHE 4/10/15)
• Sacto Hearings On CA Higher Ed (Cloudminder 4/8/15)
• New Prize Rewards Economic Diversity at Colleges (NYT 4/7/15)
• Wall Street’s new Student Loan Scheme: Subprime Lons are Coming to Financial Aid (Salon 3/30/15)
• New Federal Data Show Student Loan Borrowers Suffering More Than Previously Believed (Huff Po 3/27/15)
• NYU Asks Employees For Donations To Help Students Pay Crippling Cost Of Attending NYU (Gothamist 3/27/15)
• Efforts to Expand California University Systems are Growing (LAT 3/25/15)
• Alexander Weighing new Accountability Tools, Better Data in Higher Ed Act Rewrite (IHE 3/24/15)
• Higher Education and the 2015 UK General Election (Campaign for Public U 3/22/15)
• Exploring the Roots of College Admissions Mania (Huff Po 3/19/15)
• Obama To Announce Student Loan Reforms As Education Department Stalls (Huff Po 3/10/15)
• As California University Costs Rise, College Students Tap Food Pantries (KPCC 3/9/15)
• Cal State is Tightening Admissions Criteria to Control Demand (LAT 3/8/15)
• State to Audit UC Nonresident Enrollment, Rebenching Progress (Daily Bruin 3/5/15)
• Rising Price of Virginia Public Universities Disproportionately Hurts Low-Income Students (IHE 3/4/15)
• Shocking Decision at Sweet Briar (IHE 3/4/15)
• University of California plans to Limit Resident Enrollment (SacBee 3/3/15)
• UC Falsely Describes Tuition Plan as "Robin Hood" Scheme (Vernon, DailyCal 3/3/15)
• After 6 Suicides, U. of Pennsylvania Takes a Tough Look at Its Campus Culture (CHE 3/3/15)
• Budget Standoff Leaves California College Hopefuls in Limbo (ABC 3/2/15)
• A Different Kind of LLP (Cloudminder 2/27/15)
• Alexander says Congress will Pass Higher Ed Act This Year, Backs Plan to Cut Regulations on Colleges (IHE 2/25/15)
• Is Obama's ‘Pay as You Earn’ Plan Too Costly? (CHE 2/24/15)
• State-by-State Breakdown of Graduation Rates (CHE 2/24/15)
• Student Activists Call for ‘Debt Strike’ Against Federal Loans they Incurred at the Embattled Corinthian Colleges (IHE 2/24/15)
• Support the New University (Change.org 2/15)
• The Financial-Aid Fine Print (CHE 2/23/15)
• Oklahoma Legislature Targets AP US History Framework for being 'Negative' (IHE 2/23/15)
• Sanctions Put Academic Freedoms to a Test on a Campus Far From Tehran (NYT 2/22/15)
• The Ball and Chain of Student Debt (NYT 2/19/15)
• Can UC Answer These 5 Big Questions About Its Spending? (KQED 2/19/15)
• College Debt Is Crippling Black Graduates' Ability To Gain Wealth (Huff Po 2/18/15)
• State Assembly Proposes Audit of UC Budget (New University 2/17/15)
• California Assembly to apply Zero-Based Budgeting to UC Budget (Sac Bee 2/14/15)
• Ratings and Free Community College are Wrong Way to End Inequality (IHE 2/13/15)
• Should UC System's Out-of-State Students Pay Even More? (LAT 2/11/15)
• Those who Gained from Low Tuition are Stiffing Today’s College Students (Sac Bee 2/11/15)
• University of Michigan: Student Debt and the For Profit University (Occupy UMich 4/1/12)
• Don’t Sell Public Higher Education Short (Fox and Hounds 2/9/15)
• President Eloy Ortiz Oakley Delivers State of Long Beach City College Address (Press Telegram 2/6/15)
• Decrease in State Funding Leads to Higher Student Debt (Daily Bruin 2/4/15)
• Corinthian Students to get 40% Cut in Private Loan Debt (LAT 2/3/15)
• The College Completion Gap Between Rich And Poor Students Has Doubled, Study Says (Huff Po 2/3/15)
• Foreign Students Aren't Edging Out Locals, Numbers Show (CHE 2/2/15)
• Obama Relents on Proposal to End ‘529’ College Savings Plans (NYT 1/27/15)
• Cal State Chancellor Sets Goals for Improved Graduation Rates (LAT 1/27/15)
• Liberate 41 Million Americans From Student Loan Debt (Huff Po 1/26/15)
• Gov. Brown Says 'Normal' Californians Can't Get Into Berkeley, a Problem Some Californians Blame on Brown (IHE 1/23/15)
• Why Colleges Are Like Cable Companies (CHE 1/20/15)
• Are Young Scientists Getting Enough Help From the NIH? (CHE 1/13/15)
• At UIUC, the Growth in the Number of Chinese Students Has Been Dramatic (IHE 1/7/15)
• Intervening With High Performing, Low-Income Students Changes Enrollment Patterns, Study Finds (IHE 1/5/15)

2014

• Confessions of a Fixer (CHE 12/30/14)
• Finally, UC Gets Budget Attention (LAT 12/29/14)
• Tuition Fees and the Fight for Higher Education in 2015 (Campaign for the Public University 12/6/14)
• The History of UC Tuition Since 1868 (Daily Cal 12/22/14)
• That Other Half (Cloudminder 12/21/14)
• Raising Ambitions: The Challenge in Teaching at Community Colleges (NYT 12/19/14)
• Your Waitress, Your Professor (NYT 12/18/14)
• A Call for Big Changes to Meet a Big Challenge at Community Colleges (CHE 12/18/14)
• Critics Say College Graduation Rates Don't Tell the Whole Story (LAT 12/17/14)
• Law School Enrollments Continue Their Free Fall (IHE 12/17/14)
• Working-Class Students Shun Top Universities, Says Study (Guardian 11/12/14)
• California and Public Education: View From Abroad (IHE 12/14/14)
• How Did These Graduate Students Improve Their Working Conditions? They Went on Strike! (The Nation 12/12/14)
• Brown, Legislature Study Ways to Avoid UC, Cal State Tuition Hikes (LAT 12/10/14)
• Compromise Bill Would Keep Education Spending Mostly Flat for Rest of Fiscal Year (CHE 12/10/14)
• Rethinking the Library Proves a Divisive Topic at Many Liberal Arts Institutions (IHE 12/10/14)
• Congressional Deal on Spending Would Modestly Boost Student Aid and Research, Restore 'Ability-to-Benefit' Program (IHE 12/10/14)
• Senate’s Funding Proposal Places Burden on UC Students (Daily Bruin 12/8/14)
• Many Want More Money; UC Should Get In Line (LAT 12/7/14)
• Tom Harkin Wants To Take Money From College Students To Pay Reviled Loan Contractors (Huff Po 12/6/14)
• Oregon Grad Students Warned of Deportation (Daily Nous 12/6/14)
• UC’s Rising Tuition Sparks Bill to End College System’s Autonomy (SFGate 12/5/14)
• Birgeneau on Parenting and Tuition Hikes (Cloudminder 12/4/14)
• On the Democrats' Education Plan, Part 2: Resegregation (Reclaim UC 12/3/14)
• Are MOOC-Takers 'Students'? Not When It Comes to the Feds Protecting Their Data (CHE 12/3/14)
• Most College Students Don’t Earn a Degree in 4 Years, Study Finds (LAT 12/1/14)
• The Invisible Force Behind College Admissions (Forbes 11/30/14)
• If UC Wants Public Support For Its Contest With The Governor, It Needs to Fix Problems (UCLAFA 11/30/14)
• Listen to the Regents Morning Meeting of Nov. 19, 2014 (UCLAFA 11/28/14)
• Listen to the Regents Meeting of Nov. 20, 2014 (UCLAFA 11/27/14)
• Universities Are Focusing More on Undergraduate Research Projects (LAT 11/27/14)
• Cal State Funding Talks Include Scenario of Turning Away Freshmen (LAT 11/25/14)
• Analysis Says Humanities Ph.D.s Get Take Longer in Coursework Than Dissertations (IHE 11/25/14)
• Those Cal Grants Numbers, Future Costs and More (Cloudminder 11/24/14)
• University of California to Raise Tuition Despite Protests (NYT 11/20/14)
• Colleges’ Prestige Doesn’t Guarantee a Top-Flight Learning Experience (CHE 11/20/14)
• UCOP’s Failed Funding Model (Changing Universities 11/20/14)
• Tuition Hikes at The University of California: A Battle for UC's Soul (LAT 11/17/14)
• Robbed of Their Futures: How Austerity Cuts Hit Young People Hardest (Guardian 11/17/14)
• Predictable (Reclaim UC 11/16/14)
• UC Funding Measures the Value we Place on Public Education (SacBee 11/16/14)
• Who Will Pay for UC? (Vernon, SacBee 11/15/14)
• How Do You See The University of California? (Daily Cal 11/14/14)
• Senate Leader Offers Alternative to UC Tuition Hike Proposal (LAT 11/13/14)
• Only 1 State's College Students Graduate With Less Than $20,000 Of Debt, Report Finds (Huff Po 11/13/14)
• The Governor and Regents Face Off on Tuition (LAT 11/12/14)
• The Problems with UC's Tuition Proposal (Changing Universities 11/11/14)
• Cal State System Under Fire for Success Fees on Some Campuses (LAT 11/11/14)
• UC Faces Opposition from Brown on Tuition Increase Proposal (Sac Bee 11/6/14)
• Treasury Department Endorses Student Loan Deals Slammed By Elizabeth Warren (Huff Po 11/6/14)
• UC Proposes Steady Tuition Hikes (LAT 11/6/14)
• What a Republican-Led Congress Means For Higher Education Policy (IHE 11/5/14)
• Cal State 'Success Fees' Draw Growing Criticism (LAT 11/4/14)
• Study Finds Serious Attrition Issues for Black and Latino Doctoral Students (IHE 11/3/14)
• Tuition Increase Likely For 2015 (UCSD Guardian 11/2/14)
• Final Gainful Employment Rules Drop Loan Default Rate (IHE 10/30/14)
• Med School Enrollments Are Up Again (IHE 10/30/14)
• Massachusetts Higher Ed Officials Want a Half Billion Dollars and Better Respect (IHE 10/29/14)
• How To Reverse and Prevent State Disinvestment in Higher Education (IHE 10/27/14)
• Wake Forest to Drop Traditional MBA Program (IHE 10/23/14)
• Analysis of Impact of Austerity on European Universities (IHE 10/23/14)
• UC Leaders Consider Limiting Out-of-State Enrollment (LAT 10/22/14)
• UC Policies Raise Legal Questions About Rights of Students with Mental Health Issues (Daily Bruin 10/20/14)
• Report Finds Grants, Scholarships not Keeping Pace with Costs of College (Daily Cal 10/19/14)
• Positive Reports for Humanities Earnings, Art School Job Prospects (IHE 10/17/14)
• Underemployment Hits Recent Graduates the Hardest (CHE 10/17/14)
• How Bad Are the Colleges? (NYBooks 10/14)
• Chicago Joins Tennessee With Tuition-Free Community College Plan (IHE 10/16/14)
• On Campuses and Beyond, the Job Market for New Graduates Looks Up (CHE 10/14/14)
• The U. of Texas Tracks What Its Graduates Earn. It Thinks You Should, Too. (CHE 10/14/14)
• Why Government Spends More Per Pupil at Elite Universities Than at Public Universities (Huff Po 10/13/14)
• Goals for Enrollment and Tuition Revenue Elude Many Colleges (CHE 10/13/14)
• Have England's Universities been Privatised by Stealth? (Guardian 10/11/14)
• What is the Future for University Funding in England? (Guardian 10/11/14)
• As Iowa's Largest Public University Scrambles for Students, Private Colleges Worry They Will Suffer (IHE 10/8/14)
• When Education Brings Depression (NYT 10/7/14)
• How Cambridge University Almost Killed Me (Guardian 10/4/14)
• The Humanities Ph.D. is a Calling, Not Vocational Training (IHE 10/3/14)
• Protests and Controversy over how U. of Michigan Responded to Athlete's Concussion (IHE 10/1/14)
• Berkeley Free Speech Movement at 50 and Today (Portside 10/1/14)
• Napolitano Says UC will Reevaluate Tuition Policy (Daily Bruin 9/30/14)
• UC president Will Examine Enrollment Levels of Non-California Students (LAT 9/30/14)
• Is College Still Worth It? (Christopher Newfield, LARB 9/29/14)
• Higher Education’s Aristocrats (Jacobin 9/27/14)
• Document: Final Report and Recommendations from Chancellor’s Task Force on Academics & Athletics (Daily Cal 9/26/14)
• Worth Watching: Sit-In at Colgate Admissions Office Happening Now (Student Activism 9/24/14)
• Colleges Win, Student Borrowers Lose In Obama Administration Absolution (HuffPo 9/24/14)
• Syracuse U. Curbs Work with Program to Help Urban Youth Attend College (IHE 9/23/14)
• University of California Chancellor Pay was Already Excessive. And Then They Got Raises. (Slate 9/22/14)
• American Education Is Leaving Our Youth With a Debt Sentence (The Nation 9/22/14)
• New Data on U.S. Graduate Enrollments (IHE 9/22/14)
• International Students Are The New Golden Goose For American Universities (Huff Po 9/18/14)
• Possibly the Most Relevant Political Movement for Our Future (io9 9/17/14)
• Higher-Ed Leaders Worry Most About Declining Enrollment, Survey Finds (CHE 9/17/14)
• The Big College Ranking Sham: Why You Must Ignore U.S. News and World’s Report List (Salon 9/15/14)
• 73,000 State University Students Awarded Middle Class Scholarship Funds (LAT 9/15/14)
• On Our Minds: Public Higher Education (Christopher Newfield 9/14/14)
• Cal State Trustees Raise Scenario of Transfer-Only University System (LAT 9/9/14)
• 'New York Times' Introduces New Index of Colleges' Commitment to Low-Income Students (IHE 9/9/14)
• Families' Student Loan Debt Grows, but Rate of Increase Slows (IHE 9/8/14)
• Future Head Of NYU Board Of Trustees Made Millions Off Student Loans (NYU Local 9/8/14)
• John Oliver On Student Debt And For-Profit Schools: 'A First-Class Education In The Depths Of Human Depravity' (Huff Po 9/8/14)
• Is a Degree Still Worth It? Yes, Researchers Say, and the Payoff Is Getting Better (CHE 9/5/14)
• For College Textbooks, Newer - and Pricier - Isn't Always Better (LAT 8/31/14)
• Influx of Chinese Students Into U.S. May be Tapering Off (LAT 8/29/14)
• Bookless Library Opened by New US University (Guardian 8/29/14)
• Obama Administration To Reward Student Loan Company Accused Of Cheating Troops (Huff Po 8/29/14)
• Shaw Enough, College Athletics are a Big Business (UCLAFA 8/28/14)
• Generation Later, Poor Are Still Rare at Elite Colleges (NYT 8/25/14)
• These 9 Charts Show America's Coming Student Loan Apocalypse (Huff Po 8/20/14)
• A Record Number of Out-of-State Students Brings Windfall for UC System (LAT 8/17/14)
• University of California Steps Up Out-of-State Recruiting (SacBee 8/11/14)
• Ideas -- Revisited (Cloudminder 8/10/14)
• What We Mean When We Say Student Debt Is Bad (NYT 8/8/14)
• One Liberal Arts College Loses Money after its State Adopts a Performance Funding Model (IHE 8/7/14)
• Student Debt May Damage Grads' Lives More Than We Realize, Gallup Finds (Huff Po 8/7/14)
• The Upshot Gets it Wrong on College Costs—Again (The EduOptimist 8/5/14)
• UNC Board Limits Use of Tuition for Financial Aid (IHE 8/4/14)
• Student Debt Relief for Adjuncts Bill (IHE 8/1/14)
• The Hi-Tech Mess of Higher Education (NY Books 8/14)
• Families Borrowing Less for College, Report Finds (LAT 7/31/14)
• Looming Default Rates Could Penalize Community Colleges where Few Students Borrow (IHE 7/30/14)
• California's new Middle Class Scholarship Awards Delayed (LAT 7/29/14)
• New Data on Decline of State Support, 2001-11 (IHE 7/29/14)
• Spending Shifts as Colleges Compete on Students' Comfort (CHE 7/28/14)
• Higher Ed Should Create an Alternative to ABD Status (IHE 7/25/14)
• House Approves Bills on Competency-Based Education, College Information Site (IHE 7/24/14)
• The University of California Acts Like a Private School (KCRW 7/24/14)
• Cal State Lowers Enrollment Growth, Other Expenditures for Fall (LAT 7/22/14)
• UC Enrolling More New Students From Other States and Nations (LAT 7/22/14)
• What ‘Ivory Tower’ Gets Wrong (CHE 7/22/14)
• Student Loans Sell-Off Abandonment Raises Tension in Cabinet (Guardian 7/20/14)
• ‘Pay It Forward’ Plans Are No Cure for Rising College Costs, Report Says (CHE 7/18/14)
• Corinthian Boosted Figures to Obtain Federal Funds (LAT 7/16/14)
• Employment for College Grads after the Recovery (Changing Universities 7/14/14)
• College, on Your Own (CHE 7/14/14)
• Ronald Reagan Stuck it to Millennials: A College Debt History Lesson No One Tells (Salon 7/5/14)
• 5 Key Areas of the Senate Democrats’ Bill to Renew the Higher Education Act (CHE 6/26/14)
• That Big Study About How the Student Debt Nightmare Is in Your Head? It's Garbage (The Awl 6/24/14)
• The Reality of Student Debt Is Different From the Clichés (NYT 6/24/14)
• Obama’s Move to Help Students Is Not as Forgiving as It Seems (NYT 6/23/14)
• Contract Reveals Arizona State U.-Starbucks Partnership Details (IHE 6/23/14)
• It’s Official: The Boomerang Kids Won’t Leave (NYT 6/20/14)
• The Miseducation of America (CHE 6/19/14)
• Despite Criticism, Education Dept. Extends Loan Contract With Navient (CHE 6/18/14)
• Free Higher Ed in the News: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (Changing Universities 6/18/14)
• New Nonprofit Unveils Plan for Federally Funded Full-Tuition Scholarships (IHE 6/18/14)
• In Deal With Starbucks, Arizona State U. Kicks In Substantial Aid (CHE 6/17/14)
• The Market in Higher Education (Andrew McGettigan 6/16/14)
• High Cost to Focusing on Student Loans Over Saving (NYT 6/13/14)
• Efforts by Colleges to Curb Assaults Focus on Fraternities (NYT 6/12/14)
• Senate Blocks Elizabeth Warren's Student Loan Refinancing Proposal (Huff Po 6/11/14)
• What Was the Evidence in the Vergara Case? Who Wins? Who Loses? (Diane Ravitch 6/11/14)
• Senate Panel OKs NIH Funding Boost, Increase to Pell Grant (IHE 6/11/14)
• What's Out: Student Debt. What's In: Free College. (CHE 6/11/14)
• ‘I Was an Athlete Masquerading as a Student’ (CHE 6/10/14)
• California Teacher Tenure Laws Ruled Unconstitutional (NYT 6/10/14)
• U. of Washington Students Say They Can Work to Help Pay Tuition (CHE 6/9/14)
• Behind the Three-Decade Scheme to Raise Tuition, Bankrupt Generations, and Hypnotize the Media (Salon 6/8/14)
• Ivory Tower Documentary Buzz, HBCUs Series(Cloudminder 6/8/14)
• Student Loans Make it Hard to Rent or Buy a Home (NYT 6/6/14)
• Why the Campus Rape Crisis Confounds Colleges (The Nation 6/5/14)
• Are Young People Sheltering in School? (NYT 6/4/14)
• Why Colleges Should Encourage Students to Transfer (National Journal 6/2/14)
• Elliot O. Rodger’s Killings in California Followed Years of Withdrawal (NYT 6/1/14)
• An Uproar in Australia Over Proposal to Deregulate Tuition (NYT 6/1/14)
• Is College Worth It? Let’s Get Real (Edu Optimists 5/29/14)
• Increased Student Loan Debt Creates Ripple Effects That Could Hinder Economic Growth (CBP 5/29/14)
• Loved (Cloudminder 5/29/14)
• Calif. senate passes bill on four-year degrees at CCCs (Daily Bruin 5/28/14)
• Retention Is a Growing Issue as More International Students Come to U.S. (CHE 5/28/14)
• UC Santa Barbara Tragedy Receives Support Across UC System (Daily Cal 5/28/14)
• Remembering David, George, James (Cloudminder 5/26/14)
• Colleges Are Buying Stuff They Can't Afford and Making Students Pay For It (The Nation 5/23/14)
• Empty Classrooms Expose Flaws in Private Colleges Boom (Guardian 5/21/14)
• The Neoliberal Assault on Academia (Aljazeera 5/25/14)
• ?What Makes Ohio State the Most Unequal Public University in America? (The Nation 5/19/14)
• Student Debt Grows Faster at Universities With Highest-Paid Leaders, Study Finds (NYT 5/18/14)
• Congratulations, Class of 2014: You’re Totally Screwed (Salon 5/18/14)
• Enrollment Drops 0.8% Over All, but Edges Up at Private 4-Year Colleges (CHE 5/15/14)
• More Polite Handwringing About Student Debt Mess (Naked Capitalism 5/15/14)
• Who Gets to Graduate? (NYT 5/15/14)
• How Student Debt May Be Stunting the Economy (NYT 5/14/14)
• Student Loans’ Profit Scheme: How To Stop the Government From Exploiting Students’ Misery (Salon 5/14/14)
• UC Bait and Switch Part Two (Changing Universities 5/13/14)
• UC Out-of-State Students Increase as Californians' Admissions Slow (Mercury News 5/9/14)
• CBP on State Disinvestment (CBP 5/6/14)
• UCLA Admissions of Latinos Trails UC (Daily Bruin 4/29/14)
• Are Universities Breaking Consumer Protection Laws? (Guardian 4/21/14)
• UC Admissions Bait and Switch (Changing Universities 4/21/14)
• Acceptance Rates at Elite Colleges Shrinking (LAT 4/20/14)
• Student Debt Holds Back Many Would-Be Home Buyers (LAT 4/19/14)
• California Students Feel UC Admission Squeeze (LAT 4/18/14)
• Education Department Proposes Easing Eligibility Criteria for PLUS Loans (CHE 4/18/14)
• Segregation Now (Pro Publica 4/16/14)
• Hogwarts Is Now Offering A Way To Get Your Magical Education Online (io9 4/16/14)
• Automatic Income-Based Repayment? (IHE 4/15/14)
• I Guess There Is a Crisis in Legal Education After All (Lawyers, Guns & Money 4/15/14)
• Congress Recycles Higher Ed Myths (Changing Universities 4/15/14)
• Student Loan Borrowers' Costs To Jump As Education Department Reaps Huge Profit (Huff Po 4/14/14)
• Don’t Skimp on Legal Training (NYT 4/14/14)
• What You Don’t Know About Financial Aid (but Should) (NYT 4/9/14)
• Amid National-Title Celebration, Academic Questions Take Center Stage (CHE 4/8/14)
• Student Success Fees at CSU and A review at SJSU (Cloudminder 4/8/14)
• Elite Colleges Turn Away Up to 95% (NYT 4/8/14)
• The UConn Huskies Win ‘NCAA Hunger Games Bingo’ (The Nation 4/8/14)
• Proposed Student Fee Would Continue Software Contracts, Fund Technology Initiatives (Daily Cal 4/7/14)
• Grants vs. Loans (IHE 4/4/14)
• Default Data on Parent PLUS Loans (IHE 4/3/14)
• Middlebury Backs Away at Attempt to Control Rising Prices (IHE 4/3/14)
• Collateral Damage (IHE 4/2/14)
• Higher Ed Cuts in GOP Budget (IHE 4/2/14)
• Most Ph.D.'s in STEM Fields Work Outside of Academe, Analysis Finds (CHE 4/1/14)
• Students Are Made to Believe That 'University is All About Them' (Guardian 4/1/14)
• Failing Tuition Fees System Won't be Fixed by Tinkering (Guardian 4/1/14)
• The Too Big To Fail In Higher Ed Questions (Cloudminder 3/30/14)
• Colleges Want to Preserve their Ability to Make Money off of Students' ATM Cards (CHE 3/28/14)
• In a Buyer’s Market, Colleges Become Fluent in the Language of Business (NYT 3/27/14)
• Students Urge Cal State to Roll Back 'Success Fees' (LAT 3/26/14)
• WSJ: Big Data Enters the Classroom (Diane Ravitch's Blog 3/25/14)
• Grad-School Debt Is Said to Rise Rapidly and Deserve More Policy Attention (CHE 3/25/14)
• Brown U. Tests Approach to Interdisciplinary Graduate Work (CHE 3/24/14)
• Taxpayers Fund Creationism in the Classroom (Politico 3/24/14)
• Study Results:An Ethos of Respect and Inclusion (Campus Climate Study 3/19/14)
• In Curricular Clashes, Completion Can Vie With Quality (CHE 3/19/14)
• Portland State needs more tenure-track faculty: Guest opinion (The Oregonian 3/17/14)
• Graduate-School Debt Is Raising Questions About Degrees’ Worth (CHE 3/17/14)
• For Parents and Children, A UC Chain is Broken (SacBee 3/16/14)
• UC Davis Student Fees are Highest in State System (SacBee 3/16/14)
• Group Shines Light on State Disinvestment (IHE 3/14/14)
• UC Davis Grounds Division Removes Student Debt Art Exhibit, Mistakes it for Vandalism (The Aggie 3/13/14)
• Ucas Sells Access to Student Data (Guardian 3/12/14)
• Proposal to Divide California Would Reclassify More Than 100,000 UC Students as Out-Of-State (Daily Cal 3/12/14)
• Good Steps Against Unpaid Internships (NYT 3/9/14)
• Affirmative Action at California Colleges: A Debate Based on Fear (LAT 3/7/14)
• Cost and Financial Aid Increasingly Influence Students’ Choice of College (CHE 3/6/14)
• More Cal State Campuses are Considering 'Student Success Fees' (LAT 3/2/14)
• Helping Foreign Students Thrive on U.S. Campuses (NYT 3/2/14)
• Krugman Move Boosts CUNY Effort to Escape Columbia, NYU Shadows (Bloomberg 3/1/14)
• In Fake Classes Scandal, UNC Fails Its Athletes—and Whistle-Blower (Bloomberg 2/27/14)
• Ready or Not (IHE 2/26/14)
• Minority Male Students Face Challenge to Achieve at Community Colleges (CHE 2/26/14)
• After Deep Cuts, Can Iowa Wesleyan Rebound? (IHE 2/24/14)
• When Millenials Can't Move Out of Their Parents' Basements the Entire Economy Suffers (New Republic 2/21/14)
• Taking the Direct Path (IHE 2/21/14)
• Competency vs. Open-Ended Inquiry (IHE 2/21/14)
• Understanding Financial Aid in the UC and Beyond (Changing Universities 2/19/14)
• The Pedagogy of Discovery (IHE 2/19/14)
• When 'Full Funding' Isn't Full (IHE 2/18/14)
• Community Colleges Nourish Both Students and Society, Report Says (CHE 2/18/14)
• To Improve Equity, Focus on Stipends, Graduate Students Say (CHE 2/17/14)
• Private Colleges' Turn to Cry (IHE 2/17/14)
• For Interns, All Work and No Payoff (NYT 2/14/14)
• Napolitano Hears Criticism and Policy Talk from UC Berkeley Students (Daily Cal 2/14/14)
• Going All In on Proficiencies (IHE 2/14/14)
• For Some Elite Colleges, It's Advanced Placement vs. Gen-Ed (CHE 2/12/14)
• Rejecting the Standardized Test (IHE 2/12/14)
• The Rising Cost of Not Going to College (Pew Research 2/11/14)
• Is 'Undermatching' Overrated? (IHE 2/10/14)
• Politician-Public Divide (IHE 2/10/14)
• Concerned with Growing Class Sizes, Teaching Assistant Union Files Complaint Against UC (SacBee 2/9/14)
• Almost One-Third of All Foreign Students in U.S. Are From China (CHE 2/7/14)
• It's Not All Bad (IHE 2/7/14)
• Is Free Better? (IHE 2/6/14)
• Improving Economic Diversity at the Better Colleges (NYT 2/5/14)
• Tennessee Governor Urges 2 Free Years of Community College and Technical School (NYT 2/4/14)
• UC Student Leaders Call for Reform of Master Plan (Daily Bruin 2/4/14)
• Financial Aid Fee Flap (IHE 2/4/14)
• U.S. Will Earn $66-Billion From Student Loans of 2007-12 (CHE 2/3/14)
• Fight Over Effective Teachers Shifts to Courtroom (NYT 1/31/14)
• Cal State Leader Lays out Plan to Speed Graduation (LAT 1/29/14)
• College Football Players Seek to Form a Labor Union (CHE 1/29/14)
• Essay Calls for Humanities Graduate Programs to Resist Calls to Shrink (IHE 1/28/14)
• Killing off Success at U of Virginia (IHE 1/27/14)
• What the Rest of Division I Thinks (IHE 1/20/14)
• Bracing for Demographic Shifts, Colleges Face Tough Trade-Offs (CHE 1/19/14)
• What a DC Fly on the Wall Probably Didn't Hear (UCLAFA 1/19/14)
• Inspecting a Student Loan Spigot (NYT 1/18/14)
• UC freshman applications up 6.2%, fueled by out-of-staters (LAT 1/17/14)
• No Longer Free (IHE 1/13/14)
• Higher Bar for Fee Waiver in California (IHE 1/14/14)
• How Should Graduate School Change? (CHE 1/13/14)
• The Third Rail (IHE 1/13/14)
• Some Thoughts On the Death of Cooper Union (Student Activism 1/11/14)
• Free is not for Nothing. The Vote to Save Cooper Union (Kevin Slavin, Medium 1/9/14)
• A Doomed Marriage? (IHE 1/8/14)
• What’s the Matter With Kansas’ Schools? (NYT 1/7/14)
• Gen Ed Worries (IHE 1/3/14)
• Raising the Bar on Faculty (IHE 1/2/14)
• Loan Monitor Is Accused of Ruthless Tactics on Student Debt (NYT 1/1/14)

2013

• College Recruiters Give Low-Income Public Campuses Fewer Visits (LAT 12/27/13)
• Online Instruction and Cutting Middle Managers, and It is a UC labor story, too (Cloudminder 12/26/13)
• Getting Out of Discount Game, Small Colleges Lower the Price (NYT 12/25/13)
• ‘Skin in the Game’ on Loans (IHE 12/20/13)
• Cooper Union Divided (IHE 12/20/13)
• A Nation Fails Its Youth When Millions Go to College Presidents, Not Students (FDL 12/18/13)
• Sunshine for Campus Debit Cards? (IHE 12/18/13)
• The Wrong College Ratings (NYT 12/17/13)
• How A For-Profit College Created Fake Jobs To Get Taxpayer Money (Huff Po 12/16/13)
• Union Again at NYU (Jacobin 12/16/13)
• Enrollments Dip for 2nd Year; For-Profits Drop Sharply (IHE 12/13/13)
• Haverford May Abandon Loan-Free Packages for Many Students (IHE 12/12/13)
• Holy Crap. Cooper Union Just Blinked on Tuition. (Student Activism 12/11/13)
• Court Rules Florida State College Students Can Keep Guns in Cars (Chicago Tribune 12/11/13)
• Study: Student Debt Squeezes Middle Class the Most (IHE 12/11/13)
• The Real College Barrier for the Working Poor (IHE 12/10/13)
• Deans Consider New Demands on Graduate Education, in School and After (CHE 12/9/13)
• Ph.D.s With and Without Jobs (IHE 12/9/13)
• Napolitano, University of California President, ‘Deeply Skeptical’ of Obama College Rating Plan (WaPo 12/6/13)
• U.S. Seeks Experiments on New Models of Higher Ed (IHE 12/5/13)
• Student Conduct Regulations, 1859 and Now (Student Activism 12/4/13)
• Borrowers' Average Debt at Graduation Climbs to $29,400 (CHE 12/4/13)
• At Some Other Berkeley (Jacobin 12/3/13)
• Employed But ... (IHE 12/2/13)
• Wither Pennsylvania (IHE 12/2/13)
• Documentary ‘At Berkeley’ Takes an Uneven Look at a Campus in Crisis (Daily Cal 12/1/13)
• Education Department To Renew Sallie Mae Contract, Despite Allegations Of Wrongdoing (HuffPo 11/29/13)
• Will Ph.D. in economics become extinct at UF? (Gainesville 11/16/13)
• College Admission Offers May Get Easier to Obtain (LAT 11/25/13)
• Welcome to the 20-Year Dissertation (CHE 11/25/13)
• UC Should Freeze Hidden Fees as Well as Tuition (Inside Bay Area 11/23/13)
• Poorest Students Face £350m Cut In Grants (The Guardian 11/22/13)
• Spotlight on Campus Responses to Rape Puts Presidents in a Bind (CHE 11/21/13)
• Staking Out Positions (IHE 11/21/13)
• Free Education for All? (Student Activism 11/21/13)
• Funding will always be challenge for state universities, outgoing chair says (Gainesville 11/21/13)
• Cal Admits to Serious Student-Athlete Flaws (SF Gate 11/20/13)
• Pomp and Exceptional Circumstance (Boston Review 11/19/13)
• Federal Student Loan Profits Help Duncan Cut Education Spending To Lowest Level Since 2001 (HuffPo 11/18/13)
• Young and Educated in Europe, but Desperate for Jobs (NYT 11/15/13)
• The Future Grad Students (IHE 11/14/13)
• Texas University's Race Admissions Policy Is Debated Before a Federal Court (NYT 11/14/13)
• Stop Penalizing Poor College Students (NYT 11/12/13)
• Cash-Strapped NIH May Ask Universities to Limit Grant Applications (CHE 11/12/13)
• The Obamas' New Focus (IHE 11/13/13)
• International Study Up (IHE 11/11/13)
• Foreign Students Continue to Flock to U.S. Colleges (LAT 11/10/13)
• More Public Universities Cap Enrollment, Even as State Finances Improve (CHE 11/8/13)
• 3 Big Challenges Obama's College-Rating Plan Will Face at Public Forums (CHE 11/5/13)
• 2 Professors Demand Protection for Sexually Assaulted Students (CHE 11/4/12)
• Public Invited to Weigh in on Obama's College-Rating Proposal (LAT 11/3/13)
• Duncan's Timeline on Ratings Plan (IHE 10/31/13)
• Lists That Rank Colleges’ Value Are on the Rise (NYT 10/27/13)
• Despite Rising Sticker Prices, Actual College Costs Stable Over Decade, Study Says (NYT 10/24/13)
• Left Out in Ohio (IHE 10/25/13)
• Annual Rise in Cost of Public College Slows (NYT 10/23/13)
• Condé Nast to Stop Hiring Interns (The Guardian 10/23/13)
• Pretending to Be Need-Blind (IHE 10/22/13)
• UC Student Leaders Propose New Admissions Criterion (Daily Bruin 10/22/13)
• Revamped Repayment Plan and Cost Estimators Are Among New Aid Proposals (CHE 10/21/13)
• Low-Cost B.A. Starting Slowly in Two States (NYT 10/18/13)
• Scientist or 'Whore'? Incident Symbolizes Familiar Struggle for Women of Color in Science (CHE 10/15/13)
• College’s Identity Crisis (NYT 10/12/13)
• University of Virginia Students Fight for Low-Income Access (Student Activism 10/11/13)
• Two-Tiered Tuition is Back (IHE 10/11/13)
• Brown Signs Bills to Aid Veterans, Boost Community College Costs (LAT 10/10/13)
• “Pay It Forward” Opponents Step Forward (Student Activism 10/8/13)
• Michigan Students Take a Stand for the University Community (Student Activism 10/1/13)
• Student Loan Defaults Surge To Highest Level In Nearly 2 Decades (HuffPo 9/30/13)
• Lawmakers Probe Big Banks Using Colleges To Target Students (HuffPo 9/27/13)
• Is a College Degree Worth it? The Wrong Debate Continues (Changing Universities 9/26/13)
• U.S. to Contact Borrowers With New Options for Repaying Student Loans (NYT 9/24/13)
• College-Educated Workers are Taking Jobs That Don't Require Degrees (LAT 9/20/13)
• Call for Law School Reform (IHE 9/20/13)
• Job Outlook Bleak for Southland Teenagers (LAT 9/18/13)
• Celebrities Join UC Online Crowdfunding Campaign for Financial Aid (LAT 9/18/13)
• Tuition Hikes Ahoy! (Remaking 9/17/13)
• No More Debt!: The New Plan to Destroy Tuition and Loans (Salon 9/16/13)
• Public Universities Ramp Up Aid for the Wealthy, Leaving the Poor Behind (Pro Publica 9/11/13)
• A Restrained Response, For Now (IHE 8/30/13)
• Why Does College Cost So Much--And Why Do So Many Pundits Get It Wrong? (Hastac 8/24/13)
• Obama Bus Tour: President Unveils Plan For Rating Colleges Based On Affordability And Graduation Rates (HuffPo 8/22/13)
• Fact Sheet on the President’s Plan to Make College More Affordable: A Better Bargain for the Middle Class (IHE 8/22/13)
• Paying It Forward, One State at a Time (The Nation 8/16/13)
• How Much would it Take to Make all Public Higher Education Tuition-Free? (StrikeDebt 8/15/13)
• The Emergent Academic Proletariat and Its Shortchanged Students (Dissent 8/14/13)
• US student Loan Bill Signed in Rare Show of Bipartisan Compromise (The Guardian 8/9/13)
• For Public Colleges, the Best Tuition Is No Tuition (CHE 8/5/13)
• An Unusual Feat in Congress: Student Loan BillBreezes On (NYT 7/31/13)
• Efforts to Recruit Poor Students Lag at Some Elite Colleges (NYT 7/30/13)
• Obama Vows to Tackle Rising Costs (IHE 7/25/13)
• Obama's Student Loan Profit Guaranteed As Senate Approves Deal (HuffPo 7/24/13)
• Fund-Raising Pace Slowed in 2012, but Revenues Were Up, Survey Finds (CHE 7/16/13)
• Is it a Trap? Thoughts on the Cooper Union Agreement (Student Activism 7/16/13)
• Cooper Union Occupation Ends With Administration Concessions After 65 Days (Student Activism 7/15/13)
• New Interest Rates on Loans (IHE 7/10/13)
• UC Retreats From Broad Graduate School Tuition Hikes (LAT 7/4/13)
• Wealth and the Professorate (IHE 6/18/13)
• NYU: Building Buildings, Driving Students Deeper into Debt (HuffPo 6/17/13)
• Cameron Government Considers Bait and Switch On Student Loans (Guardian 6/13/13)
• Austerity and State Universities (Salon 3/25/13)
• The Impact of Neoliberal Policies on Education in California (OneTwoThree 3/20/12)
• Shifting the Burdens onto Students (NYT 3/6/13)
• As States Cut Funding, Tuition Rises (WSJ 3/6/13)
• Variations in Tuition (Quick and Ed 2/26/13)
• Students Selling Their Bodies (CHE 2/19/13)
• Is UC Management Turning to Plan B? (Reclaim UC 2/13/13)
• Proposal to Limit Access to Student Loans (CHE 2/13/13)
• Students Labor to Lower Debt (NYT 2/9/13)
• What is Up with "Rebenching"? (IHE 1/31/13)
• California Has Unexpected Bump in Revenue (SacBee 1/24/13)
• States Slashing Higher Ed Funding (The Atlantic 1/23/13)
• Bob Samuels on the "Udacity of Hope" (Changing Universities 1/23/13)
• UC Faculty in Support of Graduate Students (Move On 2013)

2012

• Studying French: Dead Language? (Guardian 7/16/12)

2011

• Tiny Tax Cut for Most Californians Equals a Huge, Hidden Tax on the State's College Students (HuffPo 8/24/11) 
• State colleges, universities may need to make more budget cuts (LAT 8/22/11) 
• Negotiating No More (IHE 8/22/11) 
• UC income from tuition will surpass state funding for the first time (LAT 8/22/11) 
• The Out-of-State Admissions Edge (The Daily Beast 8/18/11) 
• Community College Students Pay Higher Fees To Support Film Tax Credit? (CBP 8/16/11) 
• Debt, Dropouts and Degrees (IHE 8/4/11)
• UC Crushed by Debt Deal (Changing Universities 8/4/11)
• To Get at College 'Value,' Report Looks at Student Debt and Degree Completion Together (CHE 8/3/11)
• Short-Term Stability, But ... (IHE 8/1/11)
• Interactive: See how long it will take California college graduates to break even on their education (SacBee 7/27/11)
• Parents are dropping out of the college cost fight (LAT 7/23/11)
• UC Regents Approve 9.6 Percent Tuition Hike (Santa Barbara Independent 7/18/11)
• Regents approve UC tuition hike (LAT 7/14/11)
• UC regents vote to increase tuition (SacBee 7/14/11)
• A Tale of Two UCs (Changing Universities 7/13/11)
• The UC Looks Beyond California for Students … and Dollars (CBP 7/13/11)
• Cal State trustees raise tuition 12% (LAT 7/13/11)
• UC Regents Meeting Agenda for July 14th (UC Regents 7/11/11) 
• UC president seeks 9.6 percent tuition hike (SFGate 7/2/11)
• University of California enrolls more out-of-state freshmen (LAT 7/1/11) 
• Academic Council Resolution on Tuition and Fees (UC Senate 6/30/11) 
• CSU trustees asked to increase tuition by 12 percent (SacBee 6/30/11)
• Second round of tuition hikes likely at UC and Cal State systems (LAT 6/30/11)
• Higher UC, CSU tuition sure to follow deep cuts (SFGate 6/29/11)
• University tuition likely to rise in response to California budget (SacBee 6/28/11)
• UCLA students face new credit card fees for tuition, other payments (LAT 6/22/11)
• Inequality, power and privilege in the struggle for the humanities (Social Science Space 6/20/11) 
• Amid budget cutbacks, California colleges reduce or eliminate summer school (LAT 6/20/11) 
• Blocked Transfer (IHE 6/14/11) 
• Supreme Court allows California to grant in-state tuition to illegal immigrants (LAT 6/6/11) 
• Priced Out: how the wrong financial-aid policies hurts low-income students (EdTrust 6/11)
• More Questions and Answers Regarding the UC Budget (Changing Universities 5/31/11)
• Online Learning Portals: Customizing Colleges Right Out of Higher Education? (CHE 5/29/11)
• Top Colleges, Largely for the Elite (NYT 5/24/11)
• How the UC Calculates the Instructional Cost and Funding per Student (Changing Universities 5/24/11) 
• Cost of Education Calculations at the University of California (corresponding white-paper also linked in post)
• UC tuition might jump 32% if tax proposal fails, official says (LAT 5/19/11) 
• Crisis of Confidence Threatens Colleges (CHE 5/15/11) 
• Richest students to pay for extra places at Britain's best universities (Guardian 5/9/11)
• Faculty Productivity and Costs at The University of Texas at Austin (CCAP 5/11)
• Time to admit (UCLAFA 4/19/11) 
• More non-Californians are offered freshman slots at UC schools (LAT 4/19/11) 
• State Support for a UC Student’s Education Hits a 20-Year Low (CA Budget Bites 4/6/11)
• Failing Our Graduate Students (CHE 2/7/11)
• Student Debt Up 227% Since 1990: Accidentally on Purpose (SFBG 1/11/11)
• Is Law School a Bad Investment? (NYT 1/8/11)

2010

• Future of Pell Grant Funding Uncertain (NYT 12/18/10)
• Net Income from Tuition Raises in Decline (CHE 12/17/10)
• Student Borrowing Up 50% 1996-2008 (Pew 11/23/10)
• CA Supreme Court Rules Undocumented Students Are Elligible for In-State Fees (LAT 11/16/10)
• Letter to Yudof Critiquing Tuition Hike (CUCFA 11/15/10)
• UC Campuses Increase Out of State Recruitment Efforts (LAT 11/15/10)
• SF Chronicle Opposes New UC/CSU Fee Hikes (SF Gate 11/10/10)
• CSU to Start Calling Fees "Tuition" (LAT 11/8/10)
• Berkeley Crosses $50,000 Mark in Out of State Costs (CHE 10/31/10)
• CSU and UC Plan More Fee Hikes (LAT 10/30/10)
• Tuition Rises Once Again (IHE 10/28/10)
• Student Debt Rose 6% in 2009 (HuffPo 10/22/10)
• Students Can't Get Into Necessary Classes at CA CCs (LAT 10/4/10)
• How College Health Plans are Failing Students (WSJ 9/25/10)
• College Still Pays (NYT 9/21/10)
• Grad Students: Privatizing Anderson a Bad Idea (LAT 9/15/10)
• NPR: Student Debt with Newfield (KCRW 9/3/10)
• "Academic Bankruptcy" (Taylor, NYT 8/15/10)
• Student Debt Exceeds 800 Billion--Yes 800 Billion (Kamnetz 8/11/10)
• Obama Speaks on Higher Ed--Says Little of Substance (CHE 8/9/10)
• Homeless Student Experience at UCLA (HuffPo 8/5/10)
• Students and Budget Cuts (Calitics 7/27/10)
• Hunger and Homelessness at UCLA (NPR 7/27/10)
• States Try to Protect Student Aid (IHE 7/26/10)
• New Rules on Student Debt at For-Profits (IHE 7/26/10)
• Proposed Reforms for the G.I. Bill--Will They Help Vets (IHE 7/22/10)
• Record Number of Out of State Students in Entering Class at UC (LAT 7/15/10)
• Berkeley Sees Latino Enrollments Drop, Nonresidents Climb (CHE 7/14/10)
• Important Loan Default Truths (The Quick and the Ed 7/12/10)
• Non-Profits Worry About New Federal Rules (CHE 7/8/10)
• The Dangers of For-Profit Universites (CHE 7/7/10)
• Community Colleges Trying To Cut Time to Degree (IHE 7/6/10)
• Some Student Loan Reforms Pass, Others Don't (IHE 6/28/10)
• UC Wants to Switch to Tuition (LAT 6/15/10)
• Colleges Profit by Selling Student Info to Banks (HuffPo 6/8/10)
• Universities Offer PhDs but few Jobs (LAT 6/4/10)
• Does Higher Ed Really Help Social Mobility? (IHE 6/3/10)
• Student Debt Crisis On Horizon (NYT 5/28/10)
• UC Workshop on Recruitment and Enrollment of Non-Resident Students (5/27/10)
• Few UC Applicants on Wait Lists Offered Spots (LAT 5/22/10)
• College Grad Starting Salaries Decline Again (Bloomberg 5/19/10)
• UC Berkeley Increases Offers to Out-of-State Students (UCB News Center 4/14/10)
• UC Waitlists 10,000 Students (LAT 4/14/10)
• The Future of Graduate Education? (CFGE 4/10)
• Financing Education in Basic Skills (CBP 4/10)
• US Senate to Cut Back on Support for Students (IHE 3/15/10)
• Senate Prepares to Take Money from Community Colleges to Help the Wealthy (FDL 3/15/10)
• UC Ordered to Pay 38 Million To Former Professional Students Whom They Overcharged (SF Gate 3/12/10)
• Regents Consider Letting Professional Schools Match Private School Fees (SF Gate 3/11/10)
• Responding to Court Case Regents to Make Clear They Can Raise Fees at Any Time (UC Regents 3/10/10)
• Students Not Banks (FDL 3/9/10)
• Experts Say High Fees are Good for Poor Students (SJ Mercury 3/4/10)
• Stop Complaining: The Big Problem in California is High Marginal Tax Rates (WSJ 3/1/10)
• Yale to Raise Tuition to $49,800 (NYT 2/24/10)
• "Majoring in Debt" (HuffPo 2/22/10)
• Public Committed to College Education--Just not to College Administrators (NYT 2/17/10)
• Dartmouth to Raise Tuition, Reinstate Loans and Cut Staff; Lenders fight Reform (HuffPo 2/8/10)
• Obama's Budget Proposes Increased Education Spending--with some exceptions (IHE 2/2/10)
• Obama Proposes Increased Funding for Pell Grants (LAT 1/30/10)
• How Universities Became Hedge Funds (Bob Samuels, HuffPo 1/28/10)
• Billionaires for Fee Hikes at UCSD (YouTube 1/27/10)
• Unversities Resist Cap on Student Debt (IHE 1/26/10)
• Student Anxieties and Indebtedness UP even more (LAT 1/21/10)
• Tuition and the Working Class in NY (In These Times 1/19/10)
• UCB Ranks High in Enrolling Minority and Lower-income Students (LAT 1/15/10)
• UC Applications UP--especially amongst Transfer Students (LAT 1/14/10)
• UC Cuts, More Obstacles for Students (LAT 1/13/10)
• Kiplinger's "Best Colleges for the Money" (HuffPo 1/5/10)
• More Funding Problems for Foster Children in Higher Ed (CA Watch 1/4/10)
• Is "Career U" the Future? (NYT 1/3/10)
• Financial Aid Problems for Foster Youth (CA Watch 1/2/10)
• Higher Ed Fees Over Time (CPEC 2010)
• The Student Loan Scheme (College Scholarships 2010)

2009

• You Thought You Were Paying for Professors? (NYT 12/30/09)
• New Study Shows Loan Defaults Double in Year 3 (IHE 12/14/09)
• Public Universities: Fees, Applications, Funding Cuts (NYT 11/1/09)
• Budget Cuts Hit Working-Class and Minority Admissions (CHE 10/11/09)