Higher Education

Aaron Perry, an Overland Park native, is no stranger to entrepreneurship. The college senior studying economics at Cedarville University in Ohio has started businesses before, and he says that helped him as he set out to start a new venture...

Dozens of high school students across Johnson County have placed as semifinalists for the prestigious National Merit Scholarship. In September, the National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced its list of semifinalists, comprising students from schools in Johnson County who could go...

Johnson County Community College is now requiring students to present proof of U.S. citizenship or legal immigration status in order to enroll in adult education courses. The move appears to be a response to a directive issued last month by...

Three Johnson County students are 2025 National Merit Scholars. Last month, the nonprofit announced the roughly 830 high school seniors who won corporate-sponsored National Merit Scholarship awards. About a dozen Kansas students received corporate-sponsored scholarships, with three high school seniors who...

Tony Miksa, a community college president from Tennessee, will serve as the next president of Johnson County Community College, beginning in July. He joins the Overland Park-based college at a time of relative upheaval for higher education in the U.S....

Johnson County Community College has disbanded a two-year-old office dedicated to campus diversity and inclusion efforts, citing the Trump administration's order to end such programs or lose federal funding. The college’s Office of Inclusion and Belonging was closed on Friday,...

By Savannah Hawley-Bates Kansas City-area colleges and universities are welcoming a record number of students this semester. Official census numbers will take a few more weeks to come in, but schools are already seeing a boost to enrollment that brings the...

By Suzanne Perez Some Kansas students are scrambling to decide on a college and pay tuition deposits after errors with the application process for federal student aid kept them waiting months longer than usual. U.S. Department of Education officials said Tuesday...

Editor's note: This story has been updated to clarify that students must attend MidAmerica Nazarene University to access the scholarship. A local university is now offering scholarships for high school students whose parents are fallen active-duty Olathe first responders. MidAmerica Nazarene...

After almost two decades in Shawnee, a seminary is looking to downsize while it continues to embrace the virtual learning model. In January, the board of directors for Central Seminary put its 9-acre campus for sale after recognizing its 45,000-square-foot...

By Tim Carpenter The 12.5% enrollment contraction this fall semester at Emporia State University followed turbulence of faculty dismissals and academic program upheaval at the state’s smallest public university and ran counter to an overall increase in the number of...

By Tim Carpenter The Kansas Board of Regents unanimously voted Tuesday to create a three-day window during November in which public colleges and universities in the state would waive undergraduate application fees for Kansas residents regardless of a person’s income...