State Policy

West Virginia University and its president choose words carefully as lawmakers float eliminating the state income tax -- which could end a source of revenue that goes to funding higher education.

Regional state institutions are critical to rural community health, education and economies, says a report by a new research alliance focused on the underexamined sector.

It's known that some policies help the rich get richer, while the poor get poorer. A new report shows the same pattern is affecting institutions of higher education.

New Cal State chancellor, Joseph I. Castro, will thread the needle between consistent priorities and changing times.

New analysis found that a college's reopening decision for the fall term is tied to the red or blue shade of its state, even if political pressure may not be direct.

Massachusetts early-college program is turning out to be one of the strongest solutions to the state's equity gap problems, according to experts, policy makers and educators.

Amid surge in distance education, states must play a stronger role in quality assurance, write Lori Williams and Rob Anderson.

By Lori Williams and Robert Anderson

Colorado has become the latest among a handful of states to give colleges financial incentives to increase student diversity, but the new funding formula's impact remains unclear.