While California considers a plan to cut tuition and lower the cost of going to college, more than 50 local free two-year initiatives are popping up across the state.

Communication professor establishes ground rules for political conversations with his students in class. Could they be useful to other academics struggling with how to encourage productive conversations about the president, while not losing control of the syllabus?

Ferris State University is starting an associate of applied science in information security and intelligence.
Indiana University is starting a master of science in cybersecurity risk management.

A one-line critique of the fashion choices of some white women leads to debate over journalism and cultural appropriation, and to threats made to Latina students.

Big for-profit American Public now offers competency-based undergraduate degrees that don’t rely on the credit-hour standard, but federal aid isn’t part of the mix, for now.

Ideological odd couple Robert George and Cornel West issue joint statement — attracting thousands of signatures — in wake of shouting down of a speaker at Middlebury.

Proposals would keep Pell level, but cut work-study and TRIO and eliminate SEOG. In science, president would make massive cuts to NIH and research at Energy Department. And budget formally seeks to kill NEH and AmeriCorps.

Arkansas becomes latest state to create a free community college plan. But it limits programs of study and could require some recipients to pay back the money.

Ideological odd couple Robert George and Cornel West issue joint statement — attracting thousands of signatures — in wake of shouting down of a speaker at Middlebury.

Proposals would keep Pell level, but cut work-study and TRIO and eliminate SEOG. In science, president would make massive cuts to NIH and research at Energy Department. And budget formally seeks to kill NEH and AmeriCorps.

Arkansas becomes latest state to create a free community college plan. But it limits programs of study and could require some recipients to pay back the money.

Many experts on the program agree it needs changing with a greater emphasis on low-income students. But few agree that the large cut being sought by the Trump administration will help.

By cutting a third of program’s surplus and slashing other aid programs, Trump administration’s first budget would imperil college access, advocates argue.

Many experts on the program agree it needs changing with a greater emphasis on low-income students. But few agree that the large cut being sought by the Trump administration will help.