Higher Education

U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., says a staff survey of 440 colleges and universities regarding campus sexual assaults has found that 41 percent of…

Updated at 10:20 a.m. Wednesday with new Durbin comments:As part of a nationwide settlement with the federal government, the campus of for-profit Everest…

As a junior in high school, Ayont Young figured she’d go to Missouri State University to study nursing. It was the only college she’d looked at and she…

About four years ago I realized that, although my business statistics students were understanding the math fairly well, they didn't “get” the statistics…

Yvaunna Brown just graduated from Hazelwood West High School and feels like the future is wide open.She’s thinking about community college, or maybe the…

There’s a lot more to going to college than getting an acceptance letter. There’s finding financial aid and housing. There’s paying the first tuition bill…

The Missouri Senate has so far passed five of the 13 bills that make up the state budget for next year.Among those five is the budget for K-12 schools (HB…

Budget writers in the Missouri Senate have begun their review of the state's spending plan for Fiscal Year 2015.On Monday, the Senate Appropriations…

Seated in his office on the second floor of Brookings Hall on the eastern edge of the Washington University campus, Provost Holden Thorp has a pretty good…

This past fall, a new educational program for young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities began at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.…