Pell grants

The East Peoria college has enjoyed years of steady enrollment increases, expanded program offerings and new facility development after the COVID pandemic increased the strain on higher education around the country.

Eureka College is expanding the Uniquely Eureka Promise program for those with financial need to all incoming students from anywhere in Illinois. The program is for full-time students pursuing their first bachelor’s degree.

Illinois U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin is pleading with school administrators to help prevent for-profit colleges efforts to recruit their students. His...

Low-income high school students enrolled in college courses can now qualify for federally funded Pell Grants. This week, the Department of Education...

To help them complete their education, students should be able to attend college year-round. And that's the goal of a bill introduced Thursday by Illinois…