Joann Ordinachev has been elected president of the STLCC Board of Trustees

Robert Nelson’s three-year reign as president of the St. Louis Community College’s Board of Trustees has come to an end. Earlier this month, the board unanimously elected trustee Joann Ordinachev…

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…

The U of I has released many of the emails that jump started the admissions controversy and has put them online. Click here to read all 123 pages of emails.

I have only glanced at the first couple of pages so far,…

Not surprisingly, the folks at the University of Missouri are none too pleased by Gov. Jay Nixon’s budget announcement this morning. Nixon is vetoing some state funding, and has frozen other funds slated for a variety of projects, including the…

UMSL has been waiting a decade for state funds to renovate its crumbling labs in the Benton-Stadler science complex. School officials learned today that they will have to wait once more.

The roller coaster ride for UMSL and Mizzou continues.

This morning,…

U of I President B. Joseph White

The University of Illinois just announced that it will increase tuition by 2.6 percent this fall for incoming in-state freshmen, a smaller rate hike than the 4 percent initially proposed.

The tuition announcement is being…

When U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan came to St. Louis in April for a middle-class task force on college affordability, he pledged to streamline and simplify the financial aid application process. Well, voila! Two months later, Duncan has unveiled a…

The Current, the student newspaper at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, usually puts out two issues in the summer. But it may not this year.

That’s because the university has suspended the student organization’s privileges and access to university resources (including…

UM President Gary Forsee

In a hastily-called conference call this morning, the University of Missouri Board of Curators unanimously passed a resolution opposing a potential veto of its two highest-priority building projects under consideration by Gov. Jay Nixon.

University President Gary Forsee…

It’s been quite a roller coaster ride for the folks over at Westminster College in Futon in recent weeks. First, a student from across town at rival William Woods University was arrested for defacing the school’s renowned Churchill Memorial and…