First District Court Judge Raymond Z. Ortiz found in favor of Santa Fe Community College on Tuesday, saying it does not need legislative approval to build a new Higher Learning Center.
City College of San Francisco got some rare, good financial news Tuesday as local voters approved a parcel tax to benefit the huge school of 86,000 students and state voters approved a tax increase measure for schools that will help steer the college away from bankruptcy.
New Mexicans on Tuesday approved the $119.4 million universities and colleges say they so desperately need to renovate their buildings, according to county data.
Worries about the cost of rebuilding a state battered by Hurricane Sandy did not scare New Jersey voters away from approving $750 million in borrowing for the state’s colleges and universities Tuesday.
A former Carnegie Mellon University trustee is in federal custody in Texas and faces a detention hearing Thursday in connection with charges that he helped a Mexican drug cartel launder some $600 million.
They may live with their parents and they may owe thousands of dollars in student loans, but a larger share of young adults can boast a bachelor's degree than ever before, says a report out Monday.
Former Penn State University president Graham Spanier was arraigned this morning in what the Pennsylvania attorney general has called a "conspiracy of silence" among school administrators in the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse case.
A protest at the University of Mississippi against the re-election of President Barack Obama grew into crowd of about 400 people with shouted racial slurs as rumors of a riot spread on social media. Two people were arrested on minor charges.
The leaders of three local colleges bemoaned the high costs students pay to attend their schools, but said that liberal-arts educations will continue to be valuable.
Indiana University's president is heading to South America for an eight-day trip that will be the first visit by a sitting IU president to the region in nearly 40 years.