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Tennessee Board of Regents Chancellor Charles Manning stirred up serious controversy among students and faculty at the Middle Tennessee State University after releasing an extreme proposal to cut costs and increase productivity in response to the state’s 15 percent cut in higher education funding.

Tennessee Board of Regents Chancellor Charles Manning stirred up serious controversy among students and faculty at the Middle Tennessee State University after releasing an extreme proposal to cut costs and increase productivity in response to the state’s 15 percent cut in higher education funding.

California is feeling effects of the recession particularly hard. The state has a current $14.5 billion deficit and is projecting $66 million in budget cuts to its public universities.

In further evidence of the decline and uncertain future of the daily newspaper, media giant Tribune Co. — parent company to the Chicago Tribune and LA Times— filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy on Monday.

At 6:15 a.m. Tuesday morning, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich was pulled out of his home by federal agents and arrested on charges of corruption.

Student governments at both Colorado State University Campuses — Pueblo and Fort Collins — have approved legislation asking for voting rights on the CSU Board of Governors (BOG).

Stacy Snyder of Millersville University was denied a degree in education as well as teaching certificate due to a MySpace photo that showed her dressed like a pirate and drinking from a plastic cup.

According to a recent survey by The Chronicle of Higher Education, not only is the cost of tuition rising, so are the salaries of university presidents at both public and private universities.

The board of the City Colleges of Chicago recently voted unanimously for a 10-percent tuition hike that will likely start this summer. However, the public was not notified of the decision in advance, and legal experts see this as a violation of the state’s Open Meetings Act.

In a highly contentious session of the University Senate at Rutgers University in NJ, the legislative body passed a bill making it easier for students to opt out of funding the student newspaper.

In a highly contentious session of the University Senate at Rutgers University in NJ, the legislative body passed a bill making it easier for students to opt out of funding the student newspaper.

Starting next semester, Northampton Community College in Bethlehem, PA will be offering a tuition waiver program for local residents who were recently laid off due to local business or industrial plant closings.

The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education recently conducted a study called Measuring Up 2008 that examined college affordability and completion rates, and the country came in with dangerously low scores across the board

Newspapers across South Florida are forming a news service with Florida International University’s journalism school.

In the month since the passing of Proposition 8, the ban on same-sex marriage in California, activists have organized widespread protests across the country and world

Last month student members of the Aramark Worker-Student Alliance at the University of Chicago held a protest on campus to challenge food service provider Aramark’s new employee contract

December 1 was global AIDS Awareness Day and schools across the country helped to raise awareness and spread support for individuals living with HIV/AIDS.

The Harvard Square Homeless Shelter recently hosted its opening dinner to inaugurate the beginning of its active season from November 15 to April 15.

On November 18 and 19, a crowd of faculty, students and staff from the California State University system gathered at the Cal State Board of Trustees meeting to protest Governor Schwarzenegger’s most recent budget cut proposal and the Cal State Board’s plan to deal with it by limiting next year’s admission

As the market continues to collapse banks and other organizations have severely reduced lending. Now, with upwards of 700 billion dollars being funneled into the financial industry, Treasury Secretary Paulson announced that some of that money could be used to promote liquidity in the student loan market by subsidizing private lenders, including those who provide student loans.