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The Louisiana Legislature will consider creating a flat rate for TOPS program scholarships, regardless of what school students attend. It would increase the out of pocket costs for LSU and University of New Orleans students.

The state’s higher education oversight board unanimously voted Wednesday to recommend moving the University of New Orleans, which has struggled with enrollment and finances, back into the LSU System.

Louisiana universities could lose tens of millions of dollars in federal funding under a proposed slash in National Institutes of Health research funding President Donald Trump’s administration has put forward.

Her anti-vaping campaign is the first state-funded NIL deal in Louisiana.

Louisiana’s program to help families save for their children’s college education accidentally made an extra withdrawal this month from participants’ bank accounts, resulting in more than $1.5 million having to be refunded.

The LSU Board of Supervisors passed a resolution Thursday to eliminate some diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs in its university system.

Research shows that college students are going hungry at a higher rate than the U.S. population as a whole. Some campuses are taking alternative approaches to tackling student hunger.

Fourteen people arrested earlier this year during protests at Tulane University over the Israel-Hamas war were acquitted on misdemeanor criminal charges Friday in New Orleans.

The new model has students enroll in for-credit courses right away with extra academic support instead of having to pass a remedial class first.

The Louisiana Legislature passed a bill that would modify eligibility requirements for Louisiana’s free college tuition program.