Detroit is Michigan’s largest city, and East Lansing is home to its largest university. More...

The Florida Senate on Thursday voted unanimously to permanently expand Bright Futures merit scholarships for some 94,000 university and college students. More...

We’re all familiar with that age-old saying, “Time is money.” But for LSU—and Louisiana—time doesn’t just mean money. It means talent. The longer we wait to address our state’s billion-dollar budget problem and provide Louisiana’s universities with the stability necessary to attract top-notch students from across the state and the nation, the more likely it is that we lose them to another state. And once they’re gone, it is unlikely that we will get them back. More...

South Carolina's public colleges and universities are spending too much money and must "rightsize" to lower costs, the chairman of the state Commission on Higher Education said Thursday night. More...

A former official at Columbia University’s Teachers College pocketed at least $350,000 by carrying out a decades-long scheme that dished out hundreds of thousands of dollars in financial aid in exchange for kickbacks from three students, authorities said Thursday. More...

When the national averages for freshman retention rates at public schools sits around 64 percent and private schools hover around 70 percent, there’s clearly room for improvement in ensuring students return to campus the following fall. More...