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Table: Details of Obama's Fiscal 2013 Budget for Higher Education
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Table: Highlights of Obama's Fiscal 2013 Budget for Higher Education and Science
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College Groups React With Praise and Caution
Obama seeks increases for job training and student aid, but offers few details about plans to link some aid to college costs.
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Obama Budget Plan Includes New Call to Limit Charitable Deduction
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Obama Seeks 1.5% Increase for Basic Research
The president has placed heaviest emphasis on driving technologies calculated to produce economic benefits.
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For Cultural Endowments, Modest Gains
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President to Seek $8-Billion for Job-Training Partnerships Involving Community Colleges
The president's budget for next year will request $10-billion over all for job training, as well as an increase in the maximum Pell Grant.
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National Science Foundation Steps Up Its Push for Interdisciplinary Research
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.
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Fault Lines Form as Finances Strain U. of California System
Looking for fiscal autonomy, leaders of several institutions, including San Francisco, with its vaunted medical school, have proposed independence.
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Draft Rules Would Ease Student-Loan Burdens for Some
The Education Department's latest proposals for helping some troubled borrowers will be considered by a team of negotiators next week.
