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Obama's student loan plan moving forward with health billWashington Post March 18, 2010President Obama moved closer to achieving one of his top policy goals Thursday as congressional Democrats joined forces behind a bill that would cut funding to private student lenders and redirect billions of dollars in expected savings into grants to needy students. Nonpartisan congressional budget analysts estimate the savings at more than $60 billion over the next decade, most of which would go to the popular but oversubscribed Pell grant program. |
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House leaders: Health-care plan will reduce deficit by more than $130 billionWashington Post March 18, 2010Congressional Democrats say the final version of their comprehensive health-care plan -- likely to be voted on Sunday -- would cut the federal deficit by $130 billion over the next decade and $1.2 trillion 10 years after that. The bill would expand insurance coverage through tax credits for middle class households and an expansion of the Medicaid program for low-income people. The package is also expected to enact another of Obama's top domestic priorities, a dramatic expansion of the federal student loan program. |
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Not Fair, Your School Is 20 Times as BigWall Street Journal - Column March 18, 2010By giving each team a score based on where it ranks in number of undergraduates per player and where it is seeded in the tournament, you get a sense of the most impressive résumés, pound for pound. No. 7-seed Richmond jumps to No. 1 overall by this measure thanks to its undergraduate-to-basketball-player ratio of 173-1, second smallest in the field. Butler, St. Mary's and Wofford round out the top four. |
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Why can't Uncle Sam learn?Washington Post - Column March 18, 2010How does one fulfill -- or know when one has fulfilled -- Obama's goal of "college and career readiness" for every child by 2020? That gauzy goal resembles the 1994 goal that by 2000 (when, Congress dreamily decreed, every school "will be free of drugs and violence") every child would start school "ready to learn." Is "college and career readiness" one goal or two? Should everybody go to college? Is a college degree equivalent to career -- any career? -- readiness? |
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Recession sends workers back to schoolLas Vegas, Nev., Sun March 18, 2010Although the tanked economy has brought some private colleges and technical schools to their knees, others have thrived amid greater demand for career training programs that people hope will help them land jobs. Indeed, the federal stimulus program includes more money for student loans, including programs designed specifically for laid-off workers seeking to train for new careers. |
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Our Role in HaitiInside Higher Ed - Opinion Piece March 18, 2010How can Haiti hold on to the already fragile strings of democracy without all of those public spaces? Which to re-build first? Can Haitian civil society and its struggling democracy really weather such a blow? The questions and challenges are baffling. But from the perspective of a university president, the questions and issues are even more disturbing. |
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Why are college students so hard to count in the Census?USA Today March 18, 2010For one thing, the timing is terrible. Many students take off for spring break in March, just as the Census campaign gears up. For another, the purpose is to count people based on where they live April 1, and for most traditional undergraduates, that will be a campus address. But some students, and parents, assume they are supposed to be counted in their hometowns. And some international students may mistakenly think they aren't supposed to complete the form at all. Privacy laws add another wrinkle. |
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'Save our scholarships,' private college students protestKMOX Radio, St. Louis, Mo. March 17, 2010Missouri Governor Jay Nixon wants to eliminate state-funded scholarships for students not at a state school, including the well-known Bright Flight and Access Missouri. Missouri would be the first state to cut off students at private schools. That according to Tony Pals, with the National Association for Independent Colleges and Universities. He predicts an economic impact would accompany the move. |
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Lobbyists Are in High Gear as Final Outline of Student-Loan Bill Takes ShapeChronicle of Higher Education March 17, 2010Although the primary attention of Congress during the week has been on the health-care measure, lawmakers responsible for education policy have been working simultaneously to make final changes to the student-loan bill to reflect updated estimates of the bill's savings and costs. Throughout the week, college associations have been lobbying lawmakers to keep key benefits in the bill. Their efforts have focused mostly on ensuring that savings are directed to the Pell Grant. |
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Government Asks Colleges to Enhance the Nation's Internet CapacityChronicle of Higher Education March 17, 2010Universities have been in the advanced-networking business for years. Now the federal government has proposed expanding academe's role in the Internet further, by enlisting institutions in an effort to bring ultra-high-speed access to more community institutions. The proposal is part of the first-ever federal blueprint for broadband, released this week, to connect by 2020 the 100 million people who still lack access to broadband. |
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