Tally Hart, director of Student Financial Aid and founder of Ohio State’s Economic Access Initiative, retired Dec. 30 after 15 years at the university. The Economic Access Initiative formed in 2006 ...

About the same time she began making plans to train with a guide dog, Hart decided to tell her only child, Katie, that she wouldn't see her much longer. Hart was director of financial aid at Ohio ...

This week, Morning Edition studies The New College Math: families and students who are recalculating how much they can spend during a recession; colleges trying to fill seats; and an expansion in ...

The excitement that surrounds the college acceptance letters coming into households around the country may be tempered with a little more trepidation this year: With the economy flunking out, parents ...

Ohio State has taken another initiative to meet one of its greatest priorities, increasing diversity. In a partnership with Columbus State, OSU provided 11 minority transfer students merit ...

To find out how students are paying for college amid the economic recession, NPR's Steve Inskeep spoke with Tally Hart. She's the former head of financial aid at Ohio State University, where she now ...