At universities in California, Illinois, Louisiana, and Texas, students report changes to clubs, diminished research ...

As President Donald Trump and his team dialed up the pressure on Harvard University last month, threatening to bar its ...

The governor’s appearance is the latest flashpoint in Illinois’ ongoing battle with the GOP-controlled U.S House and the ...

Illinois' SmartBuy program offers up to $40,000 in student loan forgiveness and up to $5,000 towards a down payment or closing costs, but its long-term viability is uncertain due to the state's ...

Illinois' public universities are underfunded, forcing tuition hikes and cuts that threaten access and affordability for ...

Illinois lawmakers failed to act on a proposal to allow community colleges in Illinois to offer four-year bachelor’s degrees ...

(Capitol News Illinois) - With $49,000 in student loan debt ... state-level programs like SmartBuy offer an alternative answer to combating the crisis. But federal funding, legislative approval and ...

Hours later, the government froze billions in Harvard's federal funding.The first university targeted by the Trump administration was Columbia, which acquiesced to the government’s demands under ...

But while the Illinois Senate advanced a measure to overhaul and provide hundreds of millions of dollars in funding for the ... mass transit in Chicago, DePaul University professor and ...

Illinois state lawmakers were working late into the night on Saturday to pass a $55 billion state budget plan for the next fiscal year, and to overhaul governance and funding for Chicago area mass ...

The loss of federal funding for any key program could be a big hit for Illinois even though the state has fixed a number of fiscal issues since Pritzker took office in 2019. Over the last several ...

"All of the state has transit challenges, and whatever we do on the funding side needs to include that." With only a handful of days left in the Illinois legislature's spring session, a pair of ...