Budgets

The performance of Missouri’s higher education institutions could be the determining factor in how much money they receive from the state.

Gov. Pat McCrory told a national radio audience Tuesday that state community colleges and universities should be funded based on how well they do at placing their students in the job market.

University presidents warned Monday that tying state funds to graduation rates, as Gov. Rick Perry and some lawmakers have proposed, could cause some campuses to have huge cuts in funding.

One by one, leaders of the nine academic and health campuses in the University of Texas System made their pitches for so-called tuition revenue bonds to the Board of Regents today.

The last few years haven't exactly been gentle to our public colleges and universities, or the students who attend them.

North Dakota’s Gov. Jack Dalrymple, lawmakers and university students and administrators said Tuesday the university system’s funding formula has not been transparent, equitable and has been looked down on over the years.

Officials of the university system say Gov. Jerry Brown's proposed budget falls short of what they need but that they plan to hold the line on fees anyway.

Stakes are high for blacks and Latinos, who graduate at lower rates and take on more debt than their white and Asian-American peers.

Universities in Ohio are changing how they recruit students

15 of the hospital’s top administrators were paid taxpayer-financed salaries over $200,000