Add UMSL to the list of universities high off of a record enrollment this fall. Numbers the school released today show that its total enrollment of 16,548 students this year — a 5 percent increase over last year — breaks…

If your family made the switch from private to public schools this year for financial reasons, we’d like to talk to you.  If you know of a family, can you get them in touch with us?  This is for a…

An email that came across my Inbox today is one more piece of proof that private universities have responded to the economic crisis with lower tuition increases than usual.

According to a survey of 350 independent colleges, the average tuition and…

Summer school enrollment jumped by one-third in the city this spring. Twelve thousand students have enrolled in St. Louis Public’s “All Star Summer Academy,” a bump of more than 3,000 from last summer.

District administrators attributed the boost to better identifying…

Riverview Gardens School District will cut $7.2 million in total out of next year’s budget, including 121 jobs, the district just said.

More than $6 million will come from the job cuts, the district said, and another $1 million will come…

As part of a $1 million cut to next year’s budget, the Riverview Gardens School Board announced today plans to eliminate 121 staff positions — including nearly 100 teachers — before school starts this fall.

The decision is in direct response…

Southern Illinois University Carbondale announced today that it will start giving a 20 percent tuition break to low-income students from Illinois’  southern-most 34 counties.

The program, dubbed the Southern Stars Tuition Rate, will begin this fall with new, first-time freshmen and will…

Thomas Patton, the longtime chief of St. Louis College of Pharmacy, announced this week that he will step down in 2010.

Patton, 60, has served as president of the college located in the Central West End for a marathon 15 years.…

Last fall’s freshman class at Mizzou with 5,800 students — up 785 from the previous year — was one for the record books. But next fall’s class could be even bigger.

According to a monthly enrollment report, the school has already…

Last week, we got a tip that Bishop DuBourg High School, in south St. Louis, was threatened with closure.

That is the farthest thing from the truth, several Catholic leaders told me this week. In fact, DuBourg is booming, said school…