confronting cost

Last month ITT Tech closed its doors on nearly 40,000 students before they could graduate. Where are they now? 

High school and college students applying for federal financial aid may benefit from some changes coming to the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) this year. 

An investigation by the office of Senator Elizabeth Warren found nearly 80,000 student who attended schools operated by the now-defunct for-profit giant Corinthian Colleges are facing some form of debt collection.

In another blow to the for-profit industry, the U.S. Department of Education on Thursday said it was terminating recognition of the country's largest accreditor of for-profit schools.

Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey is taking action against a company that promises to assist borrowers with student loan debt relief. On Friday, Healey reached a settlement with Libre Technology.

In her latest book, Student Debt: Rhetoric and Realities of Higher Education Financing, Sandy Baum argues that the student loan debt "crisis" isn't as bad as we're often led to believe.

Suffolk University is still reeling after the university's Board of Trustees voted last month to abruptly fire President Margaret McKenna, who had already agreed to resign. Suffolk has burned through five presidents in five years. By any account, that's a lot of break-ups. But Suffolk isn't alone; the problems there represent broader relationship issues between presidents and their boards.

This month, Doctor David Podell takes the helm at Massachusetts Bay Community College. For the past eight years, he was the vice president for Academic Affairs at Marymount Manhattan College in New York.

As part of our Leaders in Higher Education series, On Campus' Kirk Carapezza  caught up with Podell on campus in Wellesley and asked him how his previous experience at a private college prepared him for his new job.

Students and faculty at four Boston-area colleges will welcome new leaders to campus for this upcoming school year. These soon-to-be college presidents will serve their schools during a time of nationwide racial tensions, increasingly competitive higher education markets, and a palpable anxiety about the fate of private liberal arts colleges and state-funded universities.

Seventeen months after voting to form a union, part-time teachers at Bentley University have reached an agreement with administrators, averting a protest scheduled for Monday.