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College students say raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour will make a huge difference in their ability to pay for school and maintain a work-school balance.

College Voices 2020: Emily McCarthy didn’t expect to be jumping in a lake after graduation. But she learned an important lesson about life — and her career.

The pause on student loan payments that started in March due to Covid-19 is set to end in December. Here’s what borrowers should do.

College Voices 2020: Young voters were were key to getting Joe Biden and Kamala Harris elected. Here’s what they want to see from them in the next four years.

Even though the vast majority of college students want to be on campus, failing to follow social distancing guidelines is causing a problem nationwide.

If you’re like many Americans, your relationship with money could use some more attention. Staying in the dark will cost you.

For students out of school and out of work, the long-term financial consequences of delaying college could be severe.

The pandemic and changing attitudes about studying in the U.S. have caused a drastic drop in the number of students coming to this country from abroad.

Public health programs have seen a surge in enrollment as the coronavirus has swept through the U.S., killing more than 247,000 people

President-Elect Joe Biden was asked Monday if student loan debt cancellation figured into his economic recovery plan. “It does figure in my plan,” Biden said. “The legislation passed by the Democratic House calls for immediate $10,000 forgiveness of student loans… It should be done immediately.”

College Voices 2020: Some students have seen their parents laid off or lose jobs. That’s forced them to have to step up financially — and rethink their dreams.

Colleges in the U.S. have seen a sharp enrollment drop among international students this fall

Student loan borrowers hoping for forgiveness were given some hope with the election of Joe Biden. Here’s what the president-elect’s plan would do.

Even with the coronavirus limiting on-campus activities, Harvard has no plans to lower tuition. Here’s much it will cost your child to go there in the future.

College Voices 2020: From wildfires to hurricanes, the drumbeat of climate change is getting louder. And for Gen Z, it’s starting to affect their career choices.

College is a major milestone for many U.S. teens, the first time they’ve been on their own

With the coronavirus spreading through colleges at alarming rates, universities are scrambling to find places to isolate the thousands of students who have caught COVID-19 or been exposed to it

During his senior year of high school, Taran Richardson was accepted to 65 colleges and was offered more than $1 million in scholarship money. Now, the 18-year-old is preparing to start his first semester of college from his mom’s house in Indianapolis. Richardson enrolled at Howard University, a Historically Black College in Washington D.C., but instead of moving out and…

The University of Notre Dame and Michigan State universities have become the latest colleges to move classes online because of the coronavirus

A recent study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association concluded colleges would need to test students for coronavirus every two days in order to reopen safely. But with the costs and number of tests needed for that level of broad, repeated testing, scientists are looking into a cheaper alternative: pool testing. Instead of testing individual samples, in…