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Students at Harvard Law School are occupying Wasserstein Hall, demanding administrators hire more diverse faculty and make the law school more accessible and affordable for students of color.

Suffolk University’s board of trustees is expected to vote on Friday on whether to oust current president Margaret McKenna. McKenna is the fifth person to serve as president of the university in five years. Who are the people who came before her and why are they no longer at the university? 

It's become something of an annual tradition: for the fourth time in five years, Suffolk University is moving to oust its president, Margaret McKenna, just eight months after she took the job. 

Thursday’s Republican debate offered candidates another chance to tackle a big issue that’s been monopolized by the Democrats: how to rein in the dauntingly high cost of going to college. In every Democratic debate, the candidates have talked at length about how to grapple with the rising cost of higher education. So where do all the candidates stand on the issue?

This year marks the 100th anniversary of New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation presidential primary. For 50 of those years, one small college in Manchester has been at the center of much of the political drama.

Behind closed doors at universities throughout the country, admissions committees are poring over thousands of applications to graduate degree programs. What exactly that application review process looks like is largely kept in the dark. But Julie Posselt, assistant professor of higher education at the University of Michigan, pulls back that curtain in her new book Inside Graduate Admissions: Merit, Diversity, and Faculty Gatekeeping.

An education nonprofit based in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood believes it has the key to ending generations of poverty and also transforming violent neighborhoods.  

A new report released Tuesday finds only 14 percent of community college students nationwide transfer to four-year schools and earn a bachelors’ degree within six years. The report by the Community College Research Center at Columbia University's Teachers College shows while the vast majority of students intend to earn a BA, few succeed.

With college application deadlines looming, December is a stressful month for high school seniors - especially for those who can't turn to their own parents for help. When English is not spoken at home, and parents have not even been to college themselves, their children can get lost in the process. To fix that problem, one Massachusetts high school is pairing experienced parent volunteers with worthy first generation students.

There's a lot of focus in this country on making community college more affordable. But living expenses – including transportation, rent and food – are still the biggest barrier between students and graduation.