Part two of a series on higher education costs. We take a look at how the financial crisis is affecting colleges themselves.
Higher Education
Higher Ed, Higher Costs: Part 2 - The Costs for Colleges
Higher Ed, Higher Costs: The Program
How is everyone involved handling the rising economic pressures of paying for college? This two-part series examines that question and more.
Higher Ed, Higher Costs: Part 1 - Paying for College, Drowning in Debt
How are students and families handling the rising costs of college? We talk with three students to find out.
Shortchanging Our Veterans: The Program
How do we reward our veterans for putting their lives on the line? For more than 400,000 servicemen and women returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, it's a rude awakening.
Eating Disorders on College Campuses: The Program
The prevalence of eating disorders in society is hard to ignore. As many as 10 million women and 1 million men in the US alone have either anorexia or bulimia.
Academic Squeeze: The Program
While community colleges normally accept anyone who wants to go, budget cuts over the past few years have made it difficult for them to fulfill the demand.
Women in Science
We take a look at one all-girls school in Cleveland, Ohio that is closing the science gender gap one student at a time.
Disappearing Dropouts
Today there’s a new trend in GED classes: they're increasingly filled with teenagers. In some states, more than half the students taking the GED test are teens.
The Best and the Brightest: The Program
How do highly selective colleges and universities decide who gets in and who does not? Amherst let us take a look behind the doors of the admissions process to find out how important grades, S.A.T. scores, athletics, family connections and other factors really are.

