The "Breakthrough" sculpture on Westminster College's campus. The sculpture is made from sections of the Berlin Wall.

Westminster College and UMSL will “tear down this wall” next month as they commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

It…

The Anheuser-Busch Foundation continues to shower area universities with large gifts.

The latest one is $1 million to Fontbonne University,  which announced over the weekend that it is renaming its main science building — previously known simply as, well, the “science…

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…

A view from inside UMSL's student center

The University of Missouri-St. Louis and St. Louis University have landed on a top 25 list of colleges that make the “best neighbors.”.

“Saviors of our Cities: Survey of Best College and University Civic Partnerships” is…

Truman State University has joined the ranks of universities launching the public phases of their capital campaigns during the recession. University leaders announced today that fund-raising target of Truman’s campaign is $30 million.

This is Truman’s first-ever capital campaign. Like Truman, a…

Express Scripts has given a gift of $2.5 million to the University of Missouri-St. Louis, Chancellor Thomas George announced tonight at the school’s Founders Dinner at the Ritz Carlton in Clayton, where the school also officially launched the public phase…

The University of Missouri-St. Louis, which just finished a record fundraising year, is getting another $2 million boost, this time from its top leader.

UMSL Chancellor Thomas George and his wife, Barbara Harbach, have made a $2 million gift to the…

While many people’s stock portfolios have plummeted during the recession, the fund raisers over at UMSL have tapped into another more, um, delicate source of money: life insurance policies.

Martin Leifeld, UMSL’s chief fund raiser, told me that it’s usually never…

UMSL's record-breaking fundraising team

University of Missouri-St. Louis officials have surprised even themselves with a record-breaking fund-raising year in the fiscal year ending June 30. And this comes at the end of a year in which many universities lowered their fund-raising…

Southeast Missouri State University officials did not get the $37 million to renovate aging science labs that they had hoped for out of a proposed statewide bond issue that failed in the last legislative session.

But the school is rejoicing over…