Colleges

The board of the 101-year-old Catholic university voted Sunday to close the Clayton-based private school, officials said. Nearby Washington University has agreed to buy the 16-acre property.

The commission was formed by the Illinois General Assembly in 2021 to consider new funding formulas for its public universities.

Guiyou Huang, Western Illinois University’s president, announced Friday he will step down at the end of the month in the midst of the university's enrollment turmoil.

As the cost of higher education continues to rise in Illinois and elsewhere, a growing number of students are working to earn as many college credits as possible while they are still in high school.

The Free Application for Federal Student Aid form — often referred to as the FAFSA — will go live by the end of the month, but that’s only because the application is being simplified, according to the U.S. Department of Education.

Elementary and secondary students in Illinois showed consistent improvements in their reading and math scores while the state’s high school graduation rate reached a 13-year high for the most recently concluded school year.

During the pandemic, SNAP rules were relaxed so students weren’t required to participate in state or federally funded work programs such as work-study. Those temporary pandemic rules allowed 3 million more students to qualify for food stamps, but now many are no longer eligible.

Missouri high schools have canceled a slew of college fairs this semester because of the coronavirus. Now, the college fairs will be absorbed into one virtual event.

Last week, when California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a law allowing college athletes to get endorsement deals, he set off a wave of copycat legislation…

A handful of leaders at St. Louis-area universities are each departing key roles this year. The most recent news of such shifts came last week as both…