Higher Education

Kentucky Community and Technical Colleges System President Ryan Quarles is visiting campuses across the state to learn how the system's colleges can best serve their communities. In an interview with WKMS ahead of a forum at West Kentucky Community and Technical College, he spoke about KCTCS' role in academics and workforce development in the Commonwealth.

For the first time in 158 years, Indiana University will no longer print the Indiana Daily Student.

Tennessee’s the University of the South, known as Sewanee, is frequently recognized for its natural beauty, including its 20-mile Perimeter Trail.

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.