The University of Louisiana System has hired a consulting firm to examine its athletics budget problems and recommend solutions

Candidates running for Congress in Louisiana’s crowded 5th District race had the sharpest disagreements over artificial intelligence regulation and economic development at a forum held Tuesday night a...

Louisiana lawmakers increased the amount of public money the state will spend on college sports championships, rodeos and other entertainment events in this fiscal year to at least $12.1 million in di...

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced Wednesday he is elevating LSU’s corps of cadets program with a new designation

Louisiana Tech President Jim Henderson said he plans to relocate to Florida after he retires to continue his career as an educator by homeschooling his grandkids.

AG Liz Murrill is suing three Democratic-led states over laws that grant immunity to doctors who prescribe abortion-inducing medication

Two Louisiana community college chancellors and a North Louisiana district attorney are among the six semifinalists for the Southern University System presidency

After years of minimal profits, LSU athletics is now tens of millions of dollars in the red.

Major companies investing in Louisiana are looking to the state’s community and technical colleges to supply their workforce, and they are also poaching the instructors who teach there

Louisiana Tech University will spend nearly $2 million in public money to pay its student-athletes this year, while the University of Louisiana at Lafayette will devote $1.5 million to its sports team...

After serving as president of the University of Louisiana System from 2017-23, Jim Henderson became president of Louisiana Tech University in Ruston. In a recent interview, he detailed his work return...

Faculty at Louisiana universities from certain countries will soon have to seek state permission to do their research under a new law

Two Republican state senators competing for a Baton Rouge-based congressional seat lobbed hefty allegations at one another Wednesday

LSU New Orleans has reported another decline in its enrollment in its first semester back in the LSU System.

Gov. Jeff Landry's interest in LSU and its athletics programs have drawn comparisons to Huey Long. But to some, Long went too far.

A survey of higher education faculty in the South found professors are concerned about the political environment around higher education

A select group of Louisiana higher ed leaders are discussing what to do with the state's marine research consortium

Mike Reese is both a Republican state senator from Leesville and president of McNeese State University in Lake Charles, having taken on the latter role July 1. In a recent interview, he detailed his w...

A select group of Louisiana higher ed leaders are discussing what to do with the state's marine research consortium

Louisiana law allows district attorneys to maintain a private law practice outside of their public sector job as long as they don’t do any criminal defense work. Thirty of the 42 district attorneys ha...

Inside a Baton Rouge courtroom Thursday, a lawsuit challenging arcane NCAA eligibility rules turned into a political football with prominent elected officials involved on each side.

Inside a Baton Rouge courtroom Thursday, a lawsuit challenging arcane NCAA eligibility rules turned into a political football with prominent elected officials involved on each side.

Athletics and campus administrators from Louisiana colleges convened last week to tackle one of their biggest challenges: How to deal with the downstream financial effects in the new era of paying stu...

Athletics and campus administrators from Louisiana colleges convened last week to tackle one of their biggest challenges: How to deal with the downstream financial effects in the new era of paying stu...

Space X is the latest in a series of major projects coming to Louisiana touting numerous high-paying jobs that require specialized training. The state's technical college system is expected to provide...

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A legislative task force is staring at a growing problem with higher education in Louisiana: How to fund a system with more demands than ever before while state and federal dollars are on the decline.

The leader of the Southern University Board of Supervisors wants the system to follow the lead of other HBCUs and adopt a dress code.

Commissioner of Higher Education Kim Hunter Reed oversees Louisiana’s colleges and universities. In a recent interview, she detailed her work with the state Board of Regents and how its programs serve...

A state appellate court has ruled LSU must release its investigative records about a former administrator accused of catfishing students to the former editor of its student paper.

The Louisiana Board of Regents projects the state will have a shortfall of approximately 6,000 nurses by 2030.

University leaders are considering setting up economic development districts, like one LSU recently created around its Baton Rouge campus, that would give their school access to sales tax revenue alre...

The calls of whooping cranes from an isolated corner of the New Orleans west bank cut through the humid August air like fire alarms, echoing back and forth in cacophonous, punctuated bursts of convers...

The “top-to-bottom review” of the state’s school-funding system is being conducted by a 15-member task force, which held its first meeting Thursday at the state Capitol.

A new survey on civic life in Louisiana has found that while Louisianians are more interested in politics than the rest of the country, they are less politically polarized.

A decline in international students at American universities could cost the U.S. more than $3 billion, including $23 million for Louisiana

Three media outlets that sued LSU to obtain records that detail how its athletics department spends public money on student-athletes have agreed to end the case now that a new state law shields that i...

Republican state Sen. Blake Miguez of New Iberia ended weeks of speculation regarding if and where he would run for Congress when he qualified Friday to run in the Baton Rouge-area 6th District.

The Louisiana Department of Health is warning residents to take precautions against a potentially fatal bacterium found in warm coastal waters that has killed five people this year.

Scholarships and budget balancing are the main ways athletics programs at Louisiana colleges plan to use their allotments of tax revenue

Students in Louisiana will soon be able to receive federal grants to take part in short-term workforce training programs

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry and Attorney General Liz Murrill said there will be fallout for New Orleans officials following now-rescinded criminal charges against Murrill.  Murrill and Landry said duri...

Tulane University researchers and the recycling facility Glass Half Full are using evolutionary relationships between bacteria, fungi and plants to grow cypress and other plant species in glass sand c...

LSU football head coach Lane Kiffin took his family to Boca Raton using his private airplane travel benefits at a cost of $40,000 to donors

U.S. Rep. Troy Carter has sent a letter to the Trump administration condemning proposed federal grant rules that would give political appointees the power to decide what scientific research gets funde...

Louisiana’s colleges and universities will soon have the option of offering a digital student identification card through LA Wallet

LSU President Wade Rousse and Gov. Jeff Landry are co-hosting an event for LSU athletics’ top donors at the governor’s mansion next month on the financial future of the athletic department.

LSU has fired its chief financial officer, the administrator in charge of handling Title IX complaints and its former DEI staff