Finance & Operations
Our news, opinion, and advice stories on college finance and operations answer your questions, like:
- How does the business of higher education work?
- How are colleges innovating their financial operations?
Finance & Operations
Leaders say cuts are necessary to close a $48-million budget hole.
Financial Aid
The Education Department on Friday finalized proposed regulations for a policy that will allow low-income students to use Pell Grants for nondegree programs.
Investigation
How the government ignored due process to gin up its attack on the University of California.
Power Challenge
Portland State says the arbitrator went too far.
Finance Fatigue
Rider University in New Jersey is right-sizing after being placed on probation by its accreditor. But an exhausted faculty is losing faith after several rounds of reductions.
Web of influence
His effort to punish universities could have a billion-dollar ripple effect.
Shaky ground
The Trump administration’s policies, and institutional budget cuts, are straining the delivery of master’s and doctoral degrees.
The Review | Essay
Chasing an idealized past has undermined higher ed’s present.
Tulsa Turmoil
The U. of Tulsa was a commuter campus that tried — and tried again — to become a regional powerhouse. Now it’s drowning in red ink.
Finance
An arbitrator says Portland State must reinstate 10 faculty members who were laid off.

















