Administration

Table: Highlights of Obama's Fiscal 2013 Budget for Higher Education and Science

College Groups React With Praise and Caution

By Kelly Field

Obama seeks increases for job training and student aid, but offers few details about plans to link some aid to college costs.

Obama Budget Plan Includes New Call to Limit Charitable Deduction

By Lisa Chiu

Bar Association Seeks More Accommodation of Disabled Students on LSAT

By Katherine Mangan

The association says that people with disabilities are underrepresented in law schools and suggests that difficulties in taking the test are partly responsible.

Obama Seeks 1.5% Increase for Basic Research

By Paul Basken

The president has placed heaviest emphasis on driving technologies calculated to produce economic benefits.

National Science Foundation Steps Up Its Push for Interdisciplinary Research

By Paul Basken

An agency official is visiting colleges to emphasize the NSF leadership's belief in the value of applying discoveries and approaches as widely as possible.

No Immediate Discipline Is Planned at Dickinson State U.

However, one high-ranking administrator stepped down after the release of an audit showing hundreds of foreign students were given degrees they didn't earn.

Fault Lines Form as Finances Strain U. of California System

By Eric Kelderman

Looking for fiscal autonomy, leaders of several institutions, including San Francisco, with its vaunted medical school, have proposed independence.