Campus groups continue to express unhappiness Friday with how trustees chose Glenn Boyce as the new chancellor of the University of Mississippi, seeking to thread a needle by not attacking Boyce...

KUTZTOWN, Pa. (AP) — The system overseeing more than a dozen Pennsylvania universities has unanimously voted to ask the state for up to $100 million over the next five years to further...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A member of the board that oversees Oklahoma's 25 state colleges and universities is stepping down after facing criticism over his role representing drugmaker Johnson &...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California's governor signs law requiring public universities to provide abortion medication at campus health centers.

OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — University of Mississippi professors want trustees to explain how they ended up selecting Glenn Boyce as the university's new leader.

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden wants to make community and technical college free and federal college loan programs more generous as he shifts leftward but not as far as his 2020...

The Detroit News. October 3, 2019

Budget battle puts higher education at risk

This week's wrangling between the Michigan Legislature and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has resulted in drastic...

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — A private Christian university in Kentucky is considering expanding to West Virginia.

The Huntington Herald-Dispatch reported Sunday that the West Virginia Higher...

Mississippi's former higher education commissioner was named the next chancellor of the University of Mississippi on Friday in a choice that was made public via a news release after an...

An official with firsthand knowledge of the decision told The Associated Press late Thursday that former state Higher Education Commissioner Glenn Boyce will be the next chancellor of the...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — AP source: Former Mississippi Higher Education Commissioner Glenn Boyce to be named University of Mississippi chancellor.

NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s attorney general filed a lawsuit Thursday against a loan servicer that handles a student loan forgiveness program for public service workers over how the program has...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Statewide enrollment in Utah’s higher education system has increased by 3% or more than 5,400 students.

The Utah System of Higher Education released enrollment numbers...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The University of Maine System says it’s going to cover the full cost of tuition and fees for more than 1,200 members of the state’s graduating high school classes next...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Politically conservative state lawmakers and college students are calling on more Connecticut colleges and universities to include political free speech in their school's...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New York Times correspondent Simon Romero and Albuquerque Poet Laureate Michelle Otero are among those headlining a national conference in Albuquerque aimed at encouraging...

STORRS, Conn. (AP) — The number of new undergraduate students from China at the University of Connecticut has fallen by 10% in the last two years in a reflection of a broader trend for American...

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky officials are preparing to launch a program that aims to increase the number of students seeking higher education after high school.

AURORA, Ill. (AP) — The city of Aurora and Loyola University are teaming up to offer a free college program to graduates of the Chicago suburb's high schools.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — University of Minnesota President Joan Gabel has criticized the hiring of a legislator for a temporary job at the school's Institute on the Environment.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Board of Regents is requesting a $95.3 million increase in state tax funding for 32 universities and colleges in the system.

BANGOR, Maine (AP) — Maine's public university system is taking steps to switch to a single accreditation system for its seven schools.

The University of Maine System's board of trustees on...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A suburban St. Louis-based company is offering free test-preparation classes for high school students in the wake of the college-admissions scandal.

OGDEN, Utah (AP) — Bret Alexander is the picture of success: He recently began his first year as a graduate student at Weber State University studying higher education leadership and leads the...

LYNDON, Vt. (AP) — An impassioned overflow crowd at Northern Vermont University in Lyndon expressed fears, concerns and suggestions to Vermont State Colleges leadership on Thursday as the system...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana's new master plan for its colleges and universities could help the state's credit rating, if the state stays on track with the roadmap to boost educational...

The school season may have just begun, but it's nearly time to start thinking about next year.

That's because college students and their families can begin to submit two key applications for...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — An attorney representing Maryland's four historically black colleges urged lawmakers Tuesday to settle a long-running lawsuit over disparities in programs for $577 million...

In a story Sept. 5 about the selection of a new University of Mississippi chancellor, The Associated Press reported an incorrect name for a College Board trustee. He is Ford Dye, not Doug...

CHICAGO (AP) — State education regulators have granted the University of Illinois permission to operate its new research and innovation center in downtown Chicago for the next five...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana's public colleges are receiving standardized forms to report hazing allegations, as the state's top higher education board works to comply with toughened...

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The president of Kentucky's Council on Postsecondary Education is starting the second phase of his statewide listening tour this week.

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia State University's president has been meeting with faculty, administrators and students to chart the institution's course for the future.

MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — The University of Montana has set new goals of keeping more first-year students on campus and increasing graduation rates.

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Gov. Kate Brown has signed into law a measure allowing members of the Oregon National Guard to receive tuition assistance at Oregon Health and Science University and private...

SEATTLE (AP) — Over the past two months, the Metropolitan King County Council has heard ideas from the public on how it should spend $318 million on education — a one-time windfall provided...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia education officials will allow the financially troubled Wheeling University to issue degrees if the college meets a list of conditions.

NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump administration has hired a longtime student loan industry executive to be the federal government's top watchdog for the $1.5 trillion student loan market.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina university official has resigned from his post in the wake of complaints by conservative activists about his Twitter posts that made disparaging comments...

DENVER (AP) — Officials say analysis has determined there were no carcinogens in a Metropolitan State University of Denver office after employees were diagnosed with cancer.

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A state loan agency has awarded 177 scholarships to students attending college in Connecticut.

The Connecticut Higher Education Supplemental Loan Authority recently...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A state audit shows Dickinson State University has lost money on its bookstore since its operations were turned over to a private company.

CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois lawmakers say they will investigate the use of a loophole in the state's guardianship law that wealthy families took advantage of to qualify their children for college...

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DENVER (AP) — A Colorado college is conducting environmental testing at a campus building where four university employees have been diagnosed with three different types of cancer.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The University of Wisconsin would be able to increase tuition by no more than the rate of inflation under a bill that the chairman of the state Assembly's higher education...

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri higher education officials say more college students are expected to receive merit-based state scholarships this year and students who qualify for a need-based...