The plans, some details of which haven’t been previously reported, include elevating the Office of Non-Public Education to report directly to DeVos in the Office of the Secretary to help meet the agency’s goal of improving “parent choice,” according to documents obtained by POLITICO from the American Federation of Government Employees, which has clashed repeatedly with the Trump administration. More...

Pennsylvania's 14 state universities want to take a new approach to attract the low- and middle-income students that they were designed to serve by offering them more financial aid. More...

The opportunity to bring South Texas College graduates more affordable master’s degrees and additional certificates is in the making though a sprouting partnership with Western Governors University. More...

Despite perennial debate over how to better organize the state’s Byzantine system of colleges and universities, the only thing lawmakers and state officials seemed to agree on during a hearing last week was that there is little political will to consolidate schools. More...

The state’s regulatory higher education agency approved the University of Houston’s proposed medical school Thursday, the most fundamental hurdle to its bid to create the city’s first new school awarding degrees for doctors in nearly half a century. More...

Hobby Lobby plans to purchase the shuttered campus of what was the only Roman Catholic university in Oklahoma. More...