February 2009 - Posts

• President’s Budget Would End Bank-Based Student Lending and Significantly Expand Pell Grants

  Mr. Obama's blueprint calls for using the savings from abolishing the bank-based student-loan program to raise the maximum Pell Grant and make it an entitlement. Read More... Posted Feb 27 2009, 09:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Obama Plan Would Reduce the Value of Charitable Deductions for Some Wealthy Donors

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• Obama's Budget Proposes Big Increases for Science

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• George Mason U. Will Close Its Campus in the Persian Gulf

  The university said it will close its troubled campus in the United Arab Emirates, after its local partners cut back on the operating budget. Read More... Posted Feb 27 2009, 09:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Surgeon's Royalties Bring Heat to a Medical School With a Strict Ethics Policy

  A University of Wisconsin researcher got caught in a debate over conflicts of interest following reports that he had received nearly $20-million from a medical-device company. Read More... Posted Feb 27 2009, 09:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Obama's Higher-Education Goal Is Ambitious but Achievable, Leaders Say

  Foundations involved in education praise the president's push to increase America's college-participation rates but say that it's a daunting task and that improvement will be hard to measure. Read More... Posted Feb 26 2009, 09:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• House Passes Delayed Appropriations Bill That Would Increase Some Student Aid

  The maximum Pell Grant would go up by $119 for the 2009 fiscal year under the measure, and funds for scientific research, and especially research on "green" energy, would rise. Read More... Posted Feb 26 2009, 09:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Iowa Professors Mobilize Against Measure on Teaching Alternatives to Evolution

  More than 200 faculty members at 20 Iowa colleges have signed a statement opposing a proposed state law that would give instructors at public colleges and schools a legal right to teach alternatives to evolution. Read More... Posted Feb 25 2009, 09:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Global Recession Is Not All Bad News for International Educators

  A number of American universities say applications from foreign students are up. But officials at a meeting of international educators acknowledge that the downturn's effects are still uncertain. Read More... Posted Feb 25 2009, 09:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Private Donations Continued to Climb in 2008 -- but Slowdown Is Forecast

  Colleges brought in an estimated $31.6-billion in the last fiscal year, says a new report by the Council for Aid to Education, but the number and size of gifts have since fallen, as the economy has soured. Read More... Posted Feb 25 2009, 09:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• NSF and NIH Differ Over How to Pay Out Stimulus Money

  The National Institutes of Health has said it will ensure some measure of geographic parity in distributing research money from the economic-stimulus bill, while the National Science Foundation has said it will not. Read More... Posted Feb 25 2009, 09:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Obama Pledges to Support Education, Urging All Americans to Get 'More Than a High-School Diploma'

  In an address to Congress, the president promised to make education a priority in federal spending and set a goal for the nation to have the world's highest proportion of college graduates by 2020. Read More... Posted Feb 25 2009, 09:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Delayed Appropriations Bill Would Increase Pell Grant and Research Funds

  The measure introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives on Monday would give more money to the National Institutes of Health and would increase the maximum Pell Grant to $5,350 for 2009-10. Read More... Posted Feb 24 2009, 09:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Study-Abroad Directors Adjust Programs in Response to Economic Stress

  Colleges are looking for ways to make study abroad more affordable so cash-strapped students can still gain the educational benefits of that experience. Read More... Posted Feb 23 2009, 09:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• 2 More Universities Cut Ties With Apparel Company

  Cornell and Pennsylvania State Universities will not renew contracts with an apparel maker accused of closing a factory in Honduras in part because of hostility to unions. Read More... Posted Feb 23 2009, 09:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News