Two years ago, Camille Charleston moved from Haiti to the United States, hoping to escape “survival mode” and pursue the American dream. Charleston, 29, didn’t have enough money to pay for college, ...

Set aside for low-income individuals, Pell Grants are the largest, most successful effort to open the unquestioned benefits of a college education to anyone. Without them, millions of Americans would ...

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Key Points ・Workforce Pell expands Pell Grants to shorter programs (generally 8 to 15 weeks and 150 to 599 clock hours) but ...

Last month, Manchester University, a private liberal arts college two hours north of Indianapolis, became the first college in Indiana to win approval to offer reduced-credit bachelor’s degrees. The ...