When West Virginia University took the local campus out of Montgomery five years ago, it took more from the rural town than just a college. Suddenly, 1,500 students were gone. More than 100 staff and faculty moved out. The bar and the car dealership closed. The grocery store, too. And it was only going to […]
Legislative negotiators have reached a deal to make college free for residents whose families make less than $80,000 a year in order to bolster the state's fledgling enrollment and labor workforce shortage.
Applicants at Penn will no longer be exclusively considered based on their legacy status. With Harvard tied up in the Supreme Court over a similar case, Penn's decision might be the first sign of a massive shift.
Citing pandemic issues and poor enrollment numbers, Buffalo-based Medaille University marks another private school in the Northeast too financially strapped to continue operations. Instead of closing, however, they're merging.
The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments last week in a case that could impact more than 1.5 million people in Illinois with student debt. At issue is the legal standing of President Joe Biden's loan forgiveness program, which would cancel up to $20,000 in debt for borrowers earning less than $125,000 […]
State lawmakers are considering a bill to give most in-state students free tuition to Minnesota's colleges and universities. DFL senators proposed creating the Minnesota Commitment to Higher Education Act, which would allow eligible Minnesota residents who are enrolled in a public state college or university to apply for a grant to cover the entire cost […]
Nine miles. That is all that separates Florida Gulf Coast University from the Gulf of Mexico and all that cushioned it from the Category 4, 150-mph winds of Hurricane Ian when it hit two weeks ago. But that ever-so-small buffer, a slight position to the south of the eyewall's center and its campus design may […]
