Entries in On Campus by Kirk Carapezza

Sixty percent of community college presidents say their enrollments have dropped in the past three years and more than one in five presidents say enrollment is down by 10 percent of more. That’s according to a new survey conducted by Gallup and Inside Higher Ed and based on responses from more than 230 leaders of two-year colleges.

The U.S. Department of Justice has charged four Chinese nationals in connection with a college admissions scam. Two of the students were admitted to schools in Massachusetts.

It's not too late if you're a high school senior looking for a college. Hundreds of colleges, including several here in New England, still have open seats for the fall term.

It's a dizzying time for high school seniors making their college decisions, but the next step — calculating how much it’s all going to cost — can be even more mind-boggling.

Now, a handful of selective schools are trying to make the true price of college a little more transparent with a new online tool.

Boston University is among a list of private colleges being called upon to enroll more low-income students. A new  released Tuesday finds that BU, at 15 percent, has one of the lowest percentages of Pell Grant eligible students among the schools that were surveyed.

Monday marks the decision deadline for many high school seniors deciding where to go to college. Perhaps more than anything else, a student's family educational background affects their college attendance and whether that student graduates on time — or at all. A charter high school in Boston has found a way to send more low-income, minority students to college.

Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey is calling out U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos for repealing federal student loan regulations. Healey and 20 other attorneys general have sent  to DeVos, opposing her decision to rollback protections for student borrowers.

New York's decision to cover tuition at all public colleges and universities for low- and middle-income families could spell bad news for the people running private and public colleges in neighboring states.

The number of full-time administrators at the University of Massachusetts Lowell is way up, according to federal data. Growing administrative ranks at colleges is a national trend, but the seven-fold increase on the Lowell campus over the past ten years stands out as one of the highest.

A group of prominent academics is pushing back against calls for colleges and universities to boycott Israeli institutions, saying such boycotts undermine basic science.