By Greg Toppo, USA TODAY
A group of college presidents and other top education officials says the USA’s “economic, democratic and social health” could worsen over the next several decades if more Americans don’t earn a college degree. The group is pushing to increase the percentage of young people who earn a degree from 40% to [...]

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By The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
The Arkansas Supreme Court ruled Thursday morning that a state law allowing no-bid contracts on some state construction projects is constitutional.
The court affirmed a Pulaski County circuit court ruling that the 2001 law applying to contracts of $5 million or more does not violate the state constitution.
The circuit court ruled against a [...]

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By Jack Stripling (Insidehighered.com)
WASHINGTON — State support of public colleges is shrinking.
Endowment values are plummeting.
Tuition is increasing, and threatening college affordability.
Sounds pretty bleak, right? Not if you run a for-profit college.
“In my opinion, all of that is good news for career colleges,” Rene Champagne, chairman of the Career College Association, told fellow leaders of for-profit [...]

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By Ed H. Moore
November 29, 2008
 
(South Florida Sun-Sentinal)

“You produce good jobs by having great education.”
With these words, Gov. Charlie Crist endorsed a bold package of changes in both public tuition structure and governance.
Florida has 28 private, not for profit, colleges and universities and 11 public colleges and universities. They are laboratories for innovation [...]

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There may be a war against Christmas, but the holiday is holding its own at public universities. On Wednesday, facing widespread criticism, the president of Florida Gulf Coast University reversed a ban on religious holiday decorations on the campus. This is the second year in a row that a public university has initially called off [...]

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If tuition policy is a vexed question in normal budget years for public universities, it will be especially challenging to discuss public policy on the subject this year. States are facing record deficits and many public colleges are seeing enrollment and application increases — a formula that could combine to create large, unpopular tuition increases.
In [...]

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