colleges and universities

From Kansas to Oklahoma to Iowa, universities are working more closely with agribusiness in search of ways to pay for projects where tax dollars have become more scarce. Critics worry that agriculture schools might focus more on industry than the public interest.

TIAA-CREF invests heavily in farmland, so it paid a university to research it.

Large donors can put universities in potentially awkward positions when faculty conclusions conflict with the interests of those benefactors. Data collected by Harvest Public Media and Investigate Midwest show corporations have given at least $170 million to ag colleges in the past decade.

For decades college towns like Lawrence, Manhattan and Emporia lost the political power of their students when it came to state legislative districts. This year things are different.

It’s unclear how many employees already got the shots. Pittsburg State University says 80% of its benefit-earning workers got vaccinated when the school offered bonuses.

As classes begin and the delta variant rages, Kansas universities are rolling out elaborate vaccine incentive programs. But it’s unclear whether they work.

The Kansas Board of Regents pressured state university officials to rethink hiking tuition, and the schools did just that. In-state tuition for...

A hot job market and the increasing cost of tuition have slowed the growth in the number of Kansans earning a college education nearly to a halt....

Texas is moving closer to providing affordable college educations to its residents.As Forbes magazine notes, In 2011, Texas Governor Rick Perry called on…

Wayland Baptist University officials announced this week that the university has received an anonymous gift of $8 million, reports The Amarillo…