Higher Education

A rash of hoax calls about active shooters on college campuses — some featuring gunshots sounding in the background — has sent waves of fear among students around the nation as the school year begins.

The appeal came after the dismissal of a lawsuit against the state's intellectual diversity law for colleges and universities.

More than 400 programs will be changed next year. It will impact about 4 percent of graduates in Indiana, or 3,300 each year.  

Louisville’s only HBCU wants to build a new $32 million campus in the West End.

Indiana University Southeast could phase out or merge 19 degree programs, to comply with a new state requirement that sets minimum numbers of graduates for degree programs.

Because of a last minute addition to the state's budget bill, public universities in Indiana have cut departments. That includes the elimination or consolidation of departments in Southern Indiana.

Indiana University could lose hundreds of degree programs as part of compliance with an array of new laws affecting higher education that passed at the 11th hour of the legislative session.

Indiana Gov. Mike Braun removed all three IU trustees elected by alumni and replaced two of them with well-known conservative figures.

The Trump administration has so far frozen about $11 billion in research funding. University leaders say no other source can fill the void.

Internal communications obtained by The Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting show U of L’s board threatened to terminate former university president Kim Schatzel.