Higher Education

Governor Nixon announced Monday that the nonprofit group USA Funds will give Missouri $2 million in grants to improve its higher education system. This…

The campuses of the University of Missouri-Columbia and University of Missouri-St. Louis have set new fundraising records.UCSL Chancellor Thomas George…

The Missouri Department of Higher Education is opening up a community college scholarship program to young adults who were brought to the United States…

Gov. Jay Nixon has signed legislation that enacts performance-based funding for Missouri's public universities and community colleges.Funding increases…

Yinzi Liu sat in the café at Washington University’s Medical School and nervously fiddled with the sleeve on her coffee cup. The 28-year old will...

Westminster College announced it will be closing its campus in Mesa, Az. at the end of the spring semester. Westminster opened the campus last fall as a…

Because of a dispute over how much money to put in this year's supplemental budget, Gov. Jay Nixon has cut $22 million from public schools and higher...

Sen. Claire McCaskill says her staff is surveying college campuses to see what protections against sexual attacks are in place and how the institutions…

An honors-caliber college student says he was denied readmission to a Baptist school in Hannibal, Mo., because he's gay.Twenty-year-old Chase Martinson of…

The Missouri House has passed legislation that would implement performance-based funding for public universities and community colleges.Under the bill,…