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Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey announced a new effort Wednesday to help students better understand college financial aid packages.

Researchers surveyed more than 33,000 community college students and found that a greater number are going without food and housing than previously thought. 

A protest at Vermont’s Middlebury College against conservative author Charlies Murray, who was invited to speak, quickly got out of hand last week—ending with one person in the emergency room. The incident comes weeks after another controversial conservative—former Breitbart Editor Milo Yiannopoulos—sparked protests at the University of California at Berkley.

In the first-ever “State of the University” address Monday evening, University of Massachusetts President Marty Meehan shot back against President Donald Trump’s immigration policies, and outlined the university's economic role to Massachusetts taxpayers and lawmakers.

Harvard University is taking additional steps to confront its past ties to slavery. The university on Friday hosted a conference exploring the historical ties between slavery and universities founded in the Colonial Era.

U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos delivered her most extensive comments to date on higher education Thursday at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland, criticizing professors and deans for indoctrinating students.

Higher education officials say the Trump Administration's views on community colleges are still largely unknown, after Betsy DeVos made her first major speech Thursday as Secretary of Education.

Marijuana-use and binge drinking have long been major problems on college campuses - something administrators prefer to hide or sweep under the rug. Now, one local university in northern New England is using the latest neuroscience to combat that culture - and perhaps change its reputation as a party school.

Students who want to earn a master’s degree typically have to spend a year or two on campus and tens of thousands of dollars in tuition and fees. But several universities around the world are experimenting with a new, more affordable way to grant graduate degrees.

Hampshire College President Jonathan Lash is stepping down just months after the small liberal arts school was thrust into a national debate surrounding the American flag.