States Mull College-Oriented Legislation
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College sophomore Charis Bridgman tends to keep quiet in class if she thinks her professor might disagree with her Christian-influenced ideas.
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SOME COLLEGE students know how to run for their lives. Take cross-country athletes. They do not get the ink. They do not get the television time. They do not have governors, alumni, and 70,000 fans fawning all over them, telling them how critical they are to the mental health of an entire state.
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Rep. Carl Duckworth, D-Magna, looks over the various kinds of Aggie Ice Cream at the Utah Legislature on Thursday. Utah State University representatives brought the treat to promote two bills affecting higher education.  (c) 2007 Deseret News (Salt Lake City).
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A proposed settlement in a federal antitrust suit could raise NCAA limits on financial aid and allow schools to pay athletes for other expenses such as travel, health insurance and laundry.
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A new report for the first time measures the extent of the differences in academic standards from state to state.
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State lawmakers want to revise Pennsylvania's "cyberschool" law following a dispute over taxpayer money spent on the children of U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum.
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An editorial column in Thursday's paper mixed up the two private school voucher bill numbers. HB148, the main voucher bill, is the subject of a citizen referendum vote on Nov. 6.
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By Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va.  Dec. 13--Good ideas occasionally do find their way into the Code of  Virginia. State Senator Ryan McDougle of Hanover and Attorney General Bob  McDonnell have proposed one such example for the upcoming General Assembly  session.
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By James Salzer, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution  Feb. 19--Gov. Sonny Perdue wants to put an additional $700 million into  education next year, but Georgia's technical colleges might wind up having to  lay off faculty and close programs to make ends meet.
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With big steps already being taken toward academic reform in college athletics, NCAA president Myles Brand believes the next area of concern is containing costs.
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Handed a plan to shake up college life in America, Education Secretary Margaret Spellings is endorsing some of its key ideas and promising to get moving on them.
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By Mark Spencer, The Hartford Courant, Conn.  Feb. 13--Like many high school seniors in the state, Isaac Montiel went to see his counselor for advice about college.
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States should develop creative approaches to climate change, just as they have with challenges such as health care, despite their different economic interests, governors said Saturday.
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By Adam Smeltz, The Centre Daily Times, State College, Pa.  Sep.
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Students from research-led universities want the government to consider establishing a national bursary scheme to boost widening participation to higher education.
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Universities are being urged to design more courses to allow people of working age to get a degree.
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As other states line up to invest billions of dollars in stem cell research, state lawmakers vowed Tuesday to act quickly on legislation that would enable Connecticut to join them.