Piper Hutchinson

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...

Editor’s note: Lawyers with the Tulane First Amendment Clinic have represented the Louisiana Illuminator. The plaintiff in this story, Josh Archote, edited the work of this author when they both were on The Reveille staff. Comments from Archote were added...

The Louisiana Department of Health is awarding the University of Louisiana at Monroe more than $2.1 million for programs to mitigate the state’s shortage of nurses. The Louisiana Board of Regents projects the state will have a shortfall of approximately...

Nearly every athletic department at Louisiana’s public universities is bleeding money, impacting the fiscal health of the rest of the school. The situation has athletics administrators eyeing ways to generate more sales tax revenue on and near campus to stabilize...

A new survey on civic life in Louisiana has found that while Louisianians are more interested in politics than the rest of the country, they are less politically polarized. The Louisiana Common Ground Survey was published Wednesday by the LSU...

A decline in international students at American universities is attributable, in part, to Trump administration immigration policies, according to a new analysis, and that loss could cost the U.S. more than $3 billion, including $23 million for Louisiana alone. The...

LSU President Wade Rousse has announced members of the committee that will select the next LSU New Orleans chancellor by the end of the year. The university was previously led by Kathy Johnson, who served as president of the University...

Republican state Sen. Blake Miguez of New Iberia ended weeks of speculation regarding if and where he would run for Congress when he qualified Friday to run in the Baton Rouge-area 6th District. Miguez, who represents an Acadiana-based district in...

The Louisiana Department of Health is warning residents to take precautions against a potentially fatal bacteria found in warm coastal waters that has killed five people this year. Vibrio vulnificus exists naturally along the Louisiana coast and has infected nine...

Scholarships and budget balancing are the main ways athletics programs at Louisiana colleges plan to use their allotments of gambling tax revenue under a new state law, but their exact spending might never be known because the law doesn’t require...

Nunez Community College in Chalmette has received a $1 million donation to enhance and increase its technical training programs, one of the largest gifts in the school’s history. The Lowe’s Foundation, the private giving arm of the popular home improvement...

The leader of the Louisiana Community and Technical College System said he plans to entice more young Louisianians to pursue workforce training by opening a charter school that would allow high school students to attain credentials alongside their diploma. LCTCS...