Describes how, with interest rates at their lowest in decades, many colleges are rushing to refinance their debt. (EV)

Discusses how the expanding role of digital technology in collegiate photography programs has raised both educational and financial questions. (EV)

Discusses how, as Harvard's Henry Wechsler continues to warn that a "sea of alcohol" threatens many campuses, some health experts wonder whether he is doing more harm than good. (EV)

Examines public worries about grade inflation. States that these concerns are neither new nor well-founded. Asserts that these "myths" perpetuate a tendency to confuse quality with difficulty. (EV)

Describes how the University of Missouri at Kansas City's chancellor is pushing a controversial plan that has split the institution and antagonized the biology faculty. (EV)

Explores how the governing structure of Florida's state universities has become a political "football" that none can catch. (EV)

Describes how a new approach to setting standards for colleges, the Academic Quality Improvement Project, follows principles from manufacturing and industry. (EV)

Discusses how the University of Phoenix's online program is gaining more students and more accolades for its business and teaching successes. (EV)

Describes how many colleges are overwhelmed by a wave of new students, but that a select few are riding the crest. (EV)

Explores the homophobic attitudes common to college athletics departments, and the silence many gay athletes believe to be their only option. (EV)

Describes how around the world, more admissions officers are finding that they must check documents submitted by foreign students. (EV)

Explores the immediate and long-term consequences for higher education of the Republicans' renewed control of the U.S. Senate. (EV)

Describes how Edwin I. Colodny, a former corporate chief executive officer who became interim leader of the University of Vermont, was able to take on issues that a new permanent president might have avoided. (EV)

Describes how colleges are offering online counseling services, although the risk of lawsuits is shaping the types of services offered. (EV)

Discusses how, for students seeking to study in the United States from countries around the world, the delays caused by intensified security checks are calling attention to a process that many say was already deeply flawed. (EV)