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Students

Suit Would Have Board of Governors Set Tuition for Florida’s Public Universities

TALLAHASSEE Fla. Former Gov. Bob Graham and others are suing to have the courts declare that tuition at Florida’s 11 public universities should be set by the state Board of Governors rather than the Legislature.

July 5, 2007

Students

Tuition freeze celebrated, but cost of campus living increases

COLUMBUS Ohio Costs of attending a state college or university will continue to rise this fall for many students despite a two-year undergraduate tuition freeze celebrated by lawmakers and university officials.

July 4, 2007

Students

President Clinton meets with NAFEO – finally – National Assn. for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education – includes excerpt of Pres. Bill Clinton’s speech and a list of attendees

Washington For the first time since he assumed office in 1992. President Bill Clinton met with several dozen members of the National Association For Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) to discuss issues of concern to Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).

July 4, 2007

International

Report: lock faulty to Purdue utility room where student died

WEST LAFAYETTE Ind. A Purdue University student fatally shocked last winter in a high-voltage campus utility room entered that room through a door with a faulty lock that might have prevented it from being securely latched, a consultant concluded.

July 1, 2007

Students

Ohio Governor Signs Budget Plan Freezing College Tuition for Two Years

COLUMBUS Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland took his first budget to the final day, signing the $52 billion spending plan just hours before the fiscal year ended Saturday, and after making good on his threat to veto a tax-funded voucher program to allow special-needs students to attend private schools.

July 1, 2007

Community Colleges

Massachusetts’ free tuition proposal has its drawbacks

BOSTON Gov. Deval Patrick’s proposal to make the state’s community colleges tuition free for high school graduates is unlikely to alleviate the financial burdens of many low-income students who must hold down full-time jobs and support a family while they go to school, educators say.

July 1, 2007

Students

Oklahoma Tuition Increases Prompt Concern

OKLAHOMA CITY Student leaders say they’ve come to expect tuition increases every year, but concern is growing among some lawmakers and educators about pricing working-class kids out of a college education.

June 30, 2007

Home

Seattle schools facing $1 M attempt to recover legal costs

SEATTLE A day after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Seattle Public Schools cannot use race as a tiebreaker for school assignments, the attorney who represented the parents who sued the district said he will try to recover his legal costs.

June 29, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Tuition, Financial Aid Going Up for New Hampshire University System

DURHAM N.H. Tuition and financial aid are going up for students of New Hampshire’s university system.

June 29, 2007

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University of Kansas Tuition Rates Frozen for Four Years

TOPEKA Kan. Incoming freshman at the University of Kansas will pay the same tuition rate for four years under a plan the Kansas Board of Regents approved Thursday.

June 27, 2007

Community Colleges

Financial, Academic Woes Mount for Alabama Black College

MOBILE Ala. A report by the state two-year college system finds that Bishop State Community College is in “serious trouble” with financial and academic woes and a criminal probe of some former students and employees, Chancellor Bradley Byrne said.

June 27, 2007

Latinx

Hispanic Veterans Suing Over Texas Denial of Tuition Waver

DALLAS Two Texas veterans are challenging a state policy barring them from receiving college tuition waivers because they were legal residents but not yet U.S. citizens when they entered the service.

June 27, 2007