Piper Hutchinson (Louisiana Illuminator)

The agreement is part of the transition plan to usher UNO back into the LSU System, which will reverse action legislators took 14 years ago to move the New Orleans campus into the University of Louisiana System.

A task force Gov. Jeff Landry assembled is recommending that Louisiana’s colleges and universities join six other university systems from Southern states in a new conservative accrediting body.

District maps for seats in the Louisiana Legislature violate the federal Voting Rights Act, a panel of judges on the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled.

Two new Louisiana abortion restriction laws took effect Friday, including one that allows Louisianians to sue out-of-state providers of abortion-inducing medications.

Esperanza Moran is the subject of an anonymous whistleblower complaint and at least one Equal Employment Opportunity Commission complaint.

Louisiana lawmakers are advancing legislation to transfer the University of New Orleans from the University of Louisiana System to the LSU System at a cost of about $23 million, Senate President Cameron Henry, R-Metairie, said.

Louisiana legislators are advancing legislation to move the University of New Orleans, which has struggled with enrollment and finances, back into the LSU System.

Fourteen international students at Louisiana universities have had their permission to attend school in the United States revoked by the Trump administration.

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced Wednesday it would begin screening immigrants’ social media activity for “antisemitism,” formalizing a process it has already used to deport hundreds of international students.

New Orleans is not regularly inspecting its homeless shelters to ensure minimum health and safety standards, according to a review from the Louisiana Legislative Auditor.