New data from the U.S. Department of Education shows in unprecedented detail how much federal student loan debt college students from low-income families are being saddled with. Use this interactive database to search among 6,000 schools in the U.S. to see how much they support their poorest students financially.

Accreditation agencies have been the gatekeepers standing between colleges and millions of dollars in federal financial aid for more than half a century. But that role is in question after the stunning collapse of Corinthian Colleges.

Daily marijuana use among U.S. college students is rising, and, for the first time since data has been collected, their use of pot has surpassed cigarette smoking, according to a new national survey. In 2014, 5.9 percent of of college students were smoking marijuana daily or near-daily. That compares with 3.5 percent in 2007.

After a national uproar over a Washington State professor who threatened to mark down or even fail students who used words such as “illegal aliens,” “tranny,” or referring to men and women as “male or female,” campus officials on Monday came out in strong support of free speech, pledging to “modify” syllabuses that ban words.

Daily marijuana use on college campuses has been steadily rising since 2006, and finally surpassed the rate set in 1980 last year.

It’s one of the most agonizing questions in education, a question students face every semester, a question you never really finish answering, no matter how many degrees you earn: What classes should I take? The stakes are high: in cost, time, and lost opportunities to take other classes. It can be an overwhelming decision; there are just so many good ones to choose from.

The account's timeline is full of funny and interesting stuff to be sure.

Today's student presentation comes from Drew and Matt at Penn State. Both are soon-to-be graduates, but Drew is a chemical engineer, and Matt is a chemist.

On Thursday LeBron James announced his foundation will pair up with the University of Akron and will fully sponsor more than 1,000 scholarships for children currently in his I Promise program based in Akron, Ohio. That's pretty awesome!

Three comics sat around a café table in the chilly atrium of the Minneapolis Convention Center, talking about how to create the cleanest possible set. “Don’t do what’s in your gut,” Zoltan Kaszas said. “Better safe than sorry,” Chinedu Unaka offered. Feraz Ozel mused about the first time he’d ever done stand-up: three minutes on giving his girlfriend herpes and banging his grandma. That was out.

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Bill Maher ended his show tonight with another rant against politically correct culture, telling people to just lighten up and take a joke already.

An Amherst College student blacked out, accompanied a fellow student back to her dorm room after drinking in February 2012. While he was blacked out, she performed oral sex on him.

Amherst College has 'targeted male students of color' since changing its sexual misconduct policy, lawsuit alleges.

How a simplistic, unworkable, and ultimately stifling conception of social justice took over the American college campus.

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