As members of Congress head home for the holidays, Kelly Field and Sara Hebel take a look back at how colleges and students fared in Washington in 2010, and discuss what awaits them in 2011.
With the Senate scheduled to adjourn this Friday, lawmakers are scrambling to complete work on a pair of spending and tax bills containing billions for students and colleges. Kelly Field and Sara Hebel discuss what's in the bills and their pros
With less than two weeks remaining in the lame-duck session and none of the spending bills complete, Congress is considering financing the government at fiscal 2010 levels through the end of next September. It it does, the National Institutes o
In letters to the Education Department and its Inspector General, Republican lawmakers are challenging the Obama administration over rules that would expand state oversight over colleges and penalize programs whose graduates fail to repay their
Congress reconvenes this week in a lame-duck session that could feature debate over earmarks, research and development tax credits, and aid to undocumented college students. Kelly Field and Sara Hebel discuss what's on the crowded agenda and ho
Colleges are assessing the prospects for their spending priorities in the wake of last week's elections. Kelly Field and Sara Hebel talk about Republicans' pledge to rein in the budgets of most domestic programs and what that might mean for fun
If the House or Senate changes hands after today?s elections, new Republican leaders would bring different approaches than their Democratic counterparts to for-profit higher education, domestic spending, and other issues important to colleges.
The recent scrutiny and regulation of the for-profit higher-education sector is affecting the companies? stock value and the colleges? enrollment projections. Kelly Field and Sara Hebel discuss the ramifications of the debate in Washington and