Piper Hutchinson

Huey Long’s involvement at LSU in the 1920s and ‘30s nearly cost the university and its law school their status as reputable institutions with legitimate credentials. Nearly a century later, Gov. Jeff Landry’s interest in the state’s flagship school has...

A survey of higher education faculty in the South found professors are concerned about the political environment around higher education, with some fearing for their physical safety. The annual survey from the American Association of University Professors included an open-ended...

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 work chairing a study committee looking...

On paper, a select group of Louisiana university leaders has been tasked with finding ways to maximize one of the state’s premier scientific research institutes. Unofficially, they are in the middle of a political tug-of-war over who will control an...

A high-profile lawsuit over who can participate in college athletics led to an unusual showdown Thursday between two of Louisiana’s best-known prosecutors: Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams and Tony Clayton, who leads criminal cases in Iberville, Pointe Coupee and...

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. The case is one of two that pits the Southeastern Conference against LSU in...

GRAMBLING — 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 student-athletes. Since 2021, the NCAA has allowed...

The head of Louisiana’s network of workforce training institutions said the thousands of jobs accompanying the new Space X launch facility in Southwest Louisiana will win over critics who have expressed concerns about the project’s impact on the environment and...

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. Louisiana uses a outcomes-based formula...

This report has been updated to include comment from Attorney General Liz Murrill. A Louisiana teacher is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear his constitutional challenge to a state law that requires the Ten Commandments to be posted in...

The leader of Southern University’s Board of Supervisors said he wants the system to follow the lead of other historically Black colleges and universities and adopt a dress code. Board chairman Tony Clayton, who’s also the district attorney for Iberville...

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 students in Louisiana. This interview has been edited for...