tuition

A missed opportunity for genuine equity.

How new student loan programs turned students into consumers — and ignited a competition among universities that left them drowning in debt.

In 1970 Roger Freeman, who also worked for Nixon, revealed the right’s motivation for coming decades of attacks on higher education.

Berea College has paid for every enrollee’s education using its endowment for 126 years. Can other schools replicate the model?

The roots of the student debt crisis are neither economic nor financial in origin, but rather social.

President Biden’s SAVE plan isn’t going to rescue the tens of millions of Americans that together owe more than $1.7 trillion.

The ruthless logic driving our economy can be traced back to 19th-century Palo Alto.

To understand today’s political battles, you need to know how they began.

“The schoolhouse door cannot be closed to one of modern society’s most marginalized, most vilified groups.”

While they never intended for more than 45 million Americans to have this much debt, policymakers in the 1960s made fateful choices.

How a scholarship helped — and didn't help — descendants of victims of the 1923 Rosewood racial massacre.

In the 17th and 18th centuries, students at America’s elite universities were treated differently based on the social stature of their parents.

How neoliberals and conservatives came together to undo the welfare state.

By looking at the labor history of academia, you can see the roots of a crisis in higher education that has been decades in the making.

Even throwing off of a colonial power, representative institutions, Protestantism, and local autonomy in school decisions did not produce an egalitarian system.

You get no windows. You take what you can get.

Historian Davarian Baldwin explains how universities have come to wield the kind of power that were once hallmarks of ruthless employers in company towns.

In the contemporary United States, higher education does more to exaggerate than relieve class and cultural divisions.

For decades, policymakers have debated who may access public education and the social safety net.

The fight over free education is much older than you think.