Universities have long issued bonds to raise money, but the amount being issued has nearly doubled in recent years —and is increasing as government funding is paused.

Plaintiffs in a 2022 class-action lawsuit against 17 elite colleges who allege the schools colluded in determining financial aid packages are seeking $685 million in damages.

Larger endowments — which tend to invest more in private equity and venture capital — didn’t do as well as smaller ones that stuck to investment basics.

Their customer base is shrinking and there’s no appetite for raising prices, aka tuition.

Sometimes schools will take private scholarship money and subtract that from its institutional grant. It’s known as scholarship displacement, and a handful of states are passing laws to end it.

Harvard Med joins a number of prestigious schools boycotting the rankings, saying education is too complex to be ranked numerically.

International students are more likely to pay sticker price for a degree.

Distributing abortion medication requires resources that some schools may not have.

About 36 million people in the U.S. have some college education, but no degree, yet they still owe money on student loans.

Academics want it. Critics want to restrict it. The issue could affect a state’s ability to recruit educators.