Renovation

In an attempt to help fund repairs for its aging campus, Grand Rapids Community College will now begin charging full-time students a $100 per-semester facilities fee.

University of Iowa and state officials are discussing their options after the Federal Emergency Management Agency denied a second appeal by the school for funding to replace its flood-damaged art museum.

Now comes the hard part.

Hotel-conference site will become student housing and classrooms

Space could be used for graduate or family housing

A half-century-old garden at the College of San Mateo, where an ancient Bunya-Bunya tree resides alongside a rare Fragrant Pitcher Sage, will get a reprieve from the parking lot pavers because trustees didn't do a proper environmental review, a judge ruled Tuesday.

Over the past decade Utah schools, particularly the University of Utah, have been grappling with the high cost of cheap construction that was endemic 40 to 50 years ago.

A stack of books stood there a year ago. Now there is a beehive of hexagon-shaped tables, laptops, and flat-screen TVs.

San Francisco State University has been renovating and expanding its library since 2008, and now the overhauled building is finally finished and partly open to students. But some who enter its newly pristine doors may notice something lacking: books.

A long-vacant 1920s high-rise in Newark with a marbled lobby and sweeping views of the city will be converted into apartment-style housing for 350 Rutgers University graduate students.