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...

Recent editorials from Louisiana newspapers:

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...

MEDIA, Pa. (AP) — Penn State is keeping in-state college tuition flat across the sprawling university system for a second year and for the third time in five years.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A new report says Indiana's college graduation rates are improving as more students complete their degrees on time.

The report released Thursday by the Indiana Commission...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania students who attend one of the 14 state-owned universities won't see higher tuition next year as a result of a board vote Wednesday, the first such freeze in...

CROWN POINT, Ind. (AP) — Stacy Hickman works full time at Bickford Senior Living in Crown Point. The Gary native regularly balances 12- to 16-hour shifts, with class and clinicals, all in addition...

Billings Gazette, July 10, on court ruling over University of Montana records:

Last week, in a very divided Montana State Supreme Court decision, the state's highest group of judges decided...

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The nearly two dozen members of a committee charged with whittling down a list of potential candidates to become the next president of the University of Nebraska system don't...

BALTIMORE (AP) — The University System of Maryland has announced a search committee to find a new chancellor for the 12-campus system.

Board of Regents Chair Linda Gooden announced Tuesday...

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Author Jon Krakauer's five-year quest to find out how and why Montana's top higher education official intervened to prevent a star college quarterback's expulsion over a rape...

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — One of the first tasks facing the North Dakota Board of Higher Education in Nick Hacker's term as chairman is finding a new president at the University of North Dakota. Hacker...

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — The University of Vermont's new president started the job on Monday, telling reporters that his focus will be on student success while also making higher education more...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania is broadening a college tuition benefit for National Guard members who sign up for another six-year enlistment.

COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — The accreditation of the University of Maryland, College Park, is in jeopardy a year after a football player died following a preseason workout.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The search is on for the next president of the University of North Dakota.

The new president will succeed Mark Kennedy, who departed in mid-June to become president at...

HOLLINS, Va. (AP) — Trustees at Virginia's Hollins University announced the current president would be stepping down after two-years leading the private, women's college.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The North Dakota Board of Higher Education on Thursday struck a deal meant to improve some of the management functions at the North Dakota State College of Science, following...

PATERSON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy called the Democrat-led Legislature's decision not to fully fund his proposed grants for low-income community college students "stone...

UPLAND, Ind. (AP) — The president of a Christian liberal arts university in northeastern Indiana has resigned

Taylor University announced this week that its president, Paul Lowell Haines,...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indiana Commission for Higher Education reminds seventh and eighth grade students and their parents that the June 30 deadline for the 21st Century Scholars program is...

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — An audit found the Montana office of the Commissioner of Higher Education overspent on lodging, travel and meals, including hotel rooms for members of the Board of Regents and...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — State universities will not increase tuition this fall for undergraduate students from Kansas, but the board overseeing higher education boosted rates for other students...

SOUTHINGTON, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut college campus that closed in December is up for auction.

The Republican American reports that an auction for Lincoln College of New England's...

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — All seven of Oregon's public universities will raise tuition for the 2019-2020 school year, with officials citing increased costs and less money than expected from...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — After a decade of stagnant financing or deep cuts, public education came out of Louisiana's legislative session as one of the big winners, with new money for rising costs,...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — The percentage of Kansas high school graduates who attend state universities has fallen in recent years, and the schools are considering how to stop that decline and make up...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — Purdue University will freeze tuition for Indiana residents on its West Lafayette main campus for the seventh and eighth consecutive years, through the 2020-21 academic...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Portland State University Board of Trustees' finance committee has decided to lower its proposed tuition increase to 4.9% for next year.

GREENWICH, Conn. (AP) — When a young woman whose parents never completed high school got into Cornell University this spring, she wept with surprise and joy.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Four of Oregon's public universities will defend substantial tuition increases this week in front of the Higher Education Coordinating Commission amid protests from...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada university regents are reporting progress consolidating police services across four Las Vegas-area campuses.

The Nevada System of Higher Education says that since...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina college students shouldn't have to pay more for in-state tuition next school year after state lawmakers agreed to increase university funding in exchange for a...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A new program at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville aims to increase diversity among the state's teachers.

A university news release says the Increasing Teacher...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The North Dakota Board of Higher Education is deciding how much weight to give a critical audit report of a Wahpeton college, after one board member on Thursday questioned...

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) — The dean of the University of North Dakota medical school has been named interim president at the Grand Forks school.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A Senate committee has advanced legislation requiring public universities to develop free speech policies.

The Senate Education Policy Committee voted 7-2 Wednesday...