higher education

Bonds-Raacke is the former president of Saint Martin’s University, a private Catholic school in Washington.

Legislature ties $12 million to university compliance with classroom restraints

For more than two decades, the Texas Dream Act allowed certain students without legal status to qualify for in-state tuition. The law was abruptly overturned last year.

Faculty groups say the Texas Tech University System's new curriculum policies are unconstitutional and unlawfully restrict classroom instruction on race, gender identity and sexual orientation. But university leaders have called the changes "common sense."

Allegations filed in the first five months of the new ombudsman's work challenged course content, DEI, academic freedom and employment disputes.

Tuition for full-time, resident students has gone up by an average of 26.6% at Kansas state universities in the past 10 years.

Maddie Zluticky, a student at Eisenhower High School in Goddard, wants to be the kind of teacher she didn’t have.

The university in February 2025 modified policy for the following school year, requiring the hall’s floors to be segregated by gender and students to use the bathrooms that aligned with the genders listed in their student files.

Office of the Ombudsman has no written policies on how to investigate allegations that education laws are being broken, even though it's been accepting complaints for three months.

Students who took English and math college prep courses were less likely to complete college than their peers who were not considered college ready at all.