Institutions

University of Illinois at Chicago moves to acquire nearby private law school while, to the west, the University of Iowa closes a branch campus it was given in 2015.

A Chicago-based nonprofit is opening a private two-year institution aimed at Latino immigrants.

Report documents decline in numbers of majors but growth in new tracks. Of the specializations within major, writing is doing relatively well, and literature not so much.

Nonprofit National University System seeks to expand into online graduate and doctoral programs by buying for-profit Northcentral University.

More can be done at both the student and leadership level to encourage greater understanding, collaboration and integration across different sectors of the same higher education system, write Ross Gittell and Julie Johnson.

Some faculty members at Los Angeles community colleges question the lack of black leaders on the district's board and among their presidents.

System notoriously hard to get into sees notable increase in those coming from state's community colleges -- and also gains in minority enrollments through that route.

Minority students, and those who come from lower socioeconomic status, struggle to enroll in college and graduate, federal data show.