As students prepare to return to class, U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon is asking Virginia’s college and university presidents and governing boards to review how they operate and make changes, with a specific focus on whether universities are delivering affordable, high-quality education while maintaining free speech, academic standards, and accountability to the public. McMahon […]
The Indiana Commission for Higher Education is seeking to restore outcomes-based performance funding for the state’s public colleges and universities in the next biennial budget. The formula rewards additional funding to colleges and universities for positive outcomes like on-time degree completion and graduate retention. The commission approved a new performance formula Thursday prioritizing on-time or […]
In Louisiana and the United States, higher education is central to the affordability crisis, and financial aid at the federal level is being withdrawn. Grad PLUS loans have been eliminated. Stricter caps on graduate borrowing decrease aid available to pay for pathways into high-need professions such as nursing and social work. Subsidized federal student loans, […]
SHREVEPORT, La. - High school students from northwest Louisiana were recognized Saturday during the Shreveport-Bossier-DeSoto African American Scholarship Awards at the West Shreveport Branch Library.
