In educating students, colleges today walk a fine line between empowerment and entitlement.

Now more than ever, those employed in higher education face the forces of change.

Class and culture shape applicants' expectations of college, with important implications for recruitment, two experts say.

Colleges must think more like businesses and talk like them, too, one enrollment expert says.

Rep. Paul D. Ryan wants to streamline the system, cap some federal loans, create a database to track aid recipients, and disrupt "the accreditation status quo."

At a hearing, lawmakers merely disagree on how the federal government should encourage state support for colleges.

Scholarly publishers are trying to take advantage of the retail giant’s strength without being swept away by it.