I've said it before: financial aid is a complicated thing. After you've gotten the money that is available from state & federal government sources, the trick to financial aid often becomes...

Ferrum College south of Roanoke, Va., is under lockdown this morning after school staff saw a man with a handgun in a residence hall on campus, according to news sources. The campus alarm system was...

Sallie Schaaf Borrink over at Suite101 has a nice series of articles just published last week on joining a sorority. There's a lot involved. And among the first issue for your to consider is the...

Ever wonder where you'd be most likely to run into marijuana on campus at a college in North America? Wonder no more, for the Princeton Review has that information. In their 2008 Best Colleges...

Yale is planning two new residential colleges and a 700-student increase in enrollment, according to University Business and the Boston Globe. The move is the biggest expansion at Yale since the...

The Chronicle of Higher Education's news blog reported on Friday that Southern Methodist University in Dallas has now firmed up a deal to become the site of the George W. Bush Presidential...

Stanford has joined the club of top tier universities to revise their financial aid policies so that the most working an middle class students don't have to borrow money to attend the institution....

Engineering Your Life is the latest in a long line of efforts to draw women into technical field - in this case, engineering. The new website is designed to help make engineering seem appealing to...

On Thursday, 27 year old Stephen P. Kazmierczak, with at least two handguns under his coat and a guitar case in his hand, entered Cole Hall on the campus of Northern Illinois University, walked onto...

IvyGate pointed out last week that Sex Week was coming to Yale this week. Valentine's Day seemed like as good a time as any to mention it.... There's been a fascinating schedule of speakers...

Naomi Rockler-Gladen over at Suite101 has a good article up at the moment on things to consider when you think about changing your major. Everybody does it. Most students do it a couple of times....

Add Cornell and Northwestern to the long list of major universities that have now eliminated student loans from the financial aid packages they offer their neediest students. Northwestern announced...

Reader's Digest has published a campus safety report that includes rankings of 285 colleges and universities in the US. "Is Your College Student Safe at School?" is the name of the piece...

Union University in Jackson, Tenn., has entered the recovery phase of campus life after a tornado devastated the campus on Tuesday. An official UU Recovery blog is up and running on the web, and...

California's Proposition 92, a ballot initiative that would have lowered community college tuition and increased funding for the state's 109 community colleges, was defeated in Tuesday's...

USA Today ran an editorial this week on college admissions. Their starting point is simple but scary: the biggest high school graduating class ever (the class of 2007) is applying for college at a...

Sanguine et Purpure , The unofficial blog of Sigma Phi Epsilon, is reporting that North Carolina State University "will soon start tearing down the aging boxes that line its Greek Court and...

The Associated Press is reporting that President Bush's 2009 federal budget proposal will include a $2.6 billion dollar expansion of the Pell Grant program. The Pell Grant helps low income...