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Author: BY JACEY FORTIN - Publish Date: October 21, 2021 at 12:47AM The highly selective college in Massachusetts will be among the first elite schools in the country to abandon the practice, which has been a persistent barrier to increasing student diversity.

Author: BY RON LIEBER - Publish Date: October 7, 2021 at 12:04AM Hundreds of thousands of borrowers with so-called F.F.E.L. student loans, people who paid late and military members could now get credit for years of payments toward erasing their debts.

Author: BY ERICA L. GREEN - Publish Date: March 11, 2020 at 06:59AM The Education Department is offering colleges and universities flexibility on higher education rules as campus closures have begun to cascade.

Author: KEVIN CAREY - Publish Date: June 3, 2019 at 07:00AM The market for master’s degrees behaves in strange and erratic ways, new data reveals.

Author: EMILY S. RUEB - Publish Date: May 8, 2019 at 07:00AM The legislation, which is on the governor’s desk, would surcharge businesses like Microsoft and Amazon that rely on highly skilled workers.

Author: KAYA LATERMAN - Publish Date: May 2, 2019 at 07:00AM Many routinely skip meals and take ‘poverty naps’ because they cannot afford groceries. Campus food pantries are helping, but are they enough?

Author: RON LIEBER - Publish Date: March 15, 2019 at 07:00AM No need to donate buildings or pay bribes. At Boston University, Carleton, George Washington and Wesleyan, merely paying full tuition can offer a leg up.

Author: ANDREW ROSS SORKIN - Publish Date: January 8, 2019 at 07:00AM Income Sharing Agreements are gaining the attention of higher education and Wall Street. One early success story is getting a boost from venture capital.

Author: KWAME ANTHONY APPIAH - Publish Date: December 18, 2018 at 07:00AM The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on whether the children of parents who could earn higher salaries should qualify for financial aid and more.