Past Coverage

• Low Interest Rates Prompt Proposals to Change Student-Loan Consolidation Limits - July 25, 2003
• Interest Rates on Student Loans Are Expected to Hit All-Time Low - May 23, 2003
• Borrowers Complain About Lenders' Intentional Delays in Student-Loan Consolidation - August 30, 2006
• Education Department Allows Use of Loophole in Student-Loan Consolidation - May 27, 2005
• Education Department Gives Borrowers More Time to Refinance Student Loans - June 23, 2000

Commentary

• Cases in Point: Intellectual-Property Agreements: Are You Managing Your Rights?

  In view of recent federal-court decisions, three lawyers urge colleges to carefully review two common methods of licensing the inventions of their faculty members.

• The City Where Diploma Dreams Go to Die

  Systemic high-school performance failure has elicited much hand-wringing. But there should be equal anguish, writes Kevin Carey, over breakdowns at the college level.

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  Why Liberal Arts Need Career Services

  Creative teaching and career planning are not mutually exclusive, writes Katharine S. Brooks.

Campus Viewpoint

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