Piper Hutchinson

Hegseth taps LSU cadet corps for new generation of military officers

After years of minimal profits, LSU athletics is now tens of millions of dollars in the red.

Major companies investing in Louisiana are looking to the state’s community and technical colleges to supply their workforce, and they are also poaching the instructors who teach there

After serving as president of the University of Louisiana System from 2017-23, Jim Henderson became president of Louisiana Tech University in Ruston. In a recent interview, he detailed his work returning to a student-facing role. 

Faculty at Louisiana universities from certain countries will soon have to seek state permission to do their research under a new law

A survey of higher education faculty in the South found professors are concerned about the political environment around higher education

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 at Louisiana’s higher education funding formula.  This transcript of the interview has been edited for […]

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

Space X is the latest in a series of major projects coming to Louisiana touting numerous high-paying jobs that require specialized training. The state's technical college system is expected to provide much of that training.

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. 

A Louisiana teacher is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear his constitutional challenge to a Louisiana law that requires the Ten Commandments to be posted in every K-12 and college classroom.