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Failure rates are up for new students at New York's state universities and community colleges. Fewer students start with the basics -- or study skills.

Careers are built on a solid academic foundation. "Passenger" students don't have that.

Young people value earn-and-learn opportunities, such as "apprenticeship degrees" in teaching, health care and other occupations.

Confidence in higher education's value is falling.

Georgetown, Duke, NYU and 13 other colleges cost more than $100,000 a year, including tuition, room and board. It's not true that "nobody pays the sticker price."

5% of college programs don't raise earnings -- at all -- and won't be eligible for federal loans. Some would-be art, music and theater students could have to pay their own way or do without a degree.

Can AI install a sink? Worried about college loans and competing with AI, more Gen Zers are going to trade school.

Trust in higher education is at an all-time low, in part because of high costs and murky pricing.

Test-blind college admissions has failed at the University of California. The Regents should restore SAT/ACT scores.

Capping graduate-school loans could lower tuition -- and make would-be students more cost-conscious.

A federal "disparate impact" guidance could persuade employers to stop requiring college degrees when they're not necessary.

Young men can do well in skilled trades, but other non-college jobs don't pay very well.

"Students" can earn college credit for an online course "in less than a day by answering multiple-choice, open-book tests."

Professors use AI-detection apps to spot cheaters. Cheaters use the same apps to "humanize" AI's work.

Why do so many Ivy League students identify as mentally ill?

Is "Decision Day" elitist?

Diego's A's got him into test-blind Berkeley, where he's likely to fail Calculus and give up on an engineering major.

Going "test-blind" was a "failed experiment" say University of California's humanities and social sciences professors, joining STEM faculty.

Taylor Swift, Bad Bunny and K-pop -- plus "Queering God" -- are taking students' time, attention and tuition money.