November 6, 1998

U.S. Program to Improve Colleges Sees Big Budget Increase -- in Pork

By COLLEEN CORDES

In a surprise addition last month to the Education Department's budget for fiscal 1999, Congress suddenly doubled the size of a small program that tries to promote innovative ideas for solving problems in higher education.

So why are the program's managers so glum?

Well, it turns out that Congress also directed the program, the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, to spend all of the

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