Subsidies for Big Banks or College for Kids: WIll Senate Blow This?

The president rightly calls it a "no brainer." Direct lending to college students that saves $90 billion in excess subsidies to big banks and uses it to pay for college grants for poor kids and tax breaks for working families to help pay for tuition. This isn't complicated.

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Op-Ed Columnist - America Is Not Yet Lost - NYTimes.com

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Fundraising deal for higher ed chief raises concerns

Raymund Paredes earns $180,000 as commissioner of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. A related nonprofit group pays him $40,000 more a year to raise funds.

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White Racial Resentment Bubbles Under the Surface of the Tea Party Movement

The Tea Party movement, holding its first convention this weekend, is angling to be the most revolutionary force in American politics in name and in deed, since at least the 1960s counterculture.

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Industry Lobbying Imperils Overhaul of Student Loans

Four months ago, it appeared all but certain that the White House and Democrats in Congress would succeed in overhauling the student loan business and ending government subsidies to private lenders.

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Budget crunch looms for Missouri higher education

Privatizing public universities, shutting down colleges, and across-the-board elimination of athletic programs are just some of the ideas that college and university presidents in Missouri are expected to discuss during a meeting next week with the Missouri Department of Higher E …

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Lobbying Spending Database Education

Total For Education: $95,124,409 Total Number of Lobbyists Reported: 1,499

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How to Get Our Democracy Back

If we want change, we have to change Congress.

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The Education Exception - the president's FY11 ed budget

Not every higher education-related program would fare well under the budget blueprint; the administration would hold funding for many student aid programs other than Pell Grants at their 2010 levels and eliminate a handful of others; end the Department of Labor's Career Pathways  …

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Investing in Education: The American Graduation Initiative

As part of his effort to build a stronger foundation that will allow us to lead in the global economy, the President announced today a historic initiative to strengthen our nation's community colleges, and called for five million additional graduates by 2020.

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IU cuts could worsen state's doctor shortage

Facing a $7 million budget cut, the Indiana University School of Medicine plans to reduce the number of new students next year - a move that will save money but could reduce the number of physicians when the state is already facing a shortage.

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Which Media Center Is Right for You: Boxee, XBMC, and Windows Media Center Compared

Want all your downloads, streaming video, and other techie media stuff on your TV? Wondering which media center works best for you? Here's a look at the biggies in chart and Venn diagram form, followed by some lengthy breakdowns of each.

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A Progressive Case for Educational Standardization

In the responses from higher education to the 2006 report of Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings's Commission on the Future of Higher Education, A Test of Leadership: Charting the Future of U.S.

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At Public Universities - Less for More

In her first two attempts to register, she hadn't been able to get her outstanding general-ed requirements or any advanced classes in her major. Classes were full, or not being offered this term. If she can't complete what she needs to graduate, Ms.

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Views: Make "Maintenance of Effort" Permanent

When Congress wrote into the Higher Education Act renewal and then the economic stimulus legislation provisions requiring states to fund their higher education systems at a certain minimum level to receive some federal money, even those of us who favored the idea weren't sure e …

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2010 State of the States - Higher Education

Governors throughout the nation are outlining important higher education-related initiatives in their State of the State addresses. Click on the links below for speech text, a short synopsis of higher education-related proposals, and reactions from the media.

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The Master Plan at 50: Greater Than the Sum of Its Part: Coordinating Higher Education in California

Coordination is necessary to guide public higher educational institutions toward collectively meeting state needs. Coordination does not always require active direction by a state agency.

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Study says UT may be overlooking needy

The University of Tennessee may be overlooking the state's neediest college students, researchers found.

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Fast-growing Ivy Tech feeling pain of state budget cuts

Hoosiers enrolling at fast-growing Ivy Tech Community College might find it increasingly difficult to get the classes they want at the times they prefer.

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Tennessee lawmakers pass higher-education bill

ennessee's community college students should find it easier to transfer between schools and to public four-year universities starting next year under a plan approved Thursday night by the state legislature.

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Governor proposes tuition freeze

tudents at West Virginia colleges and universities might not have to cough up more tuition money next year. Gov. Manchin is hoping to keep college education affordable by freezing tuition.

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Historic Declines

By any financial measure, this fiscal year is a terrible one for public higher education. And while that's no surprise to anyone working at a state college or university, new national data document the extent of the loss of state support.

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Interactive Map: State Financing Tightens Despite Boost From Stimulus ($)

Many states will provide less money for higher education this year, even when aid from the federal stimulus bill is included.

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Interactive Map: Many States Cut Money for Higher Education ($)

For the first time in the history of this annual "Grapevine" survey, the figures reflect total state fiscal support for operating expenses for colleges and universities, for student aid, and for state higher-education agencies.

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Stimulus Money Staved Off Deep Cuts in State Appropriations for Higher Education ($)

State-budget cuts for colleges could have been worse this year.

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