Budget Cuts

Arbitrator finds Florida State violated contract provisions in eliminating positions -- and university rescinds layoffs.

When college athletics programs cannot cover their expenses with generated revenue, they are forced to rely on funds allocated from their institution’s wider budget. Since only 14 National Collegiate Athletic Association member institutions report positive net revenues from athletics, nearly all NCAA athletics programs rely on this practice.

Economic woes force universities to reopen the debates over budget centralization.

Calling them Mr. Jefferson’s Justice League is somehow irresistible. Perhaps that’s because the University of Virginia’s Faculty Budget Advisory Committee resembles a gathering of superheroes, where brainiacs of varied disciplines combine their powers to confront a common enemy.

A draconian budget plan laid out Monday by California Gov. Jerry Brown would slash higher education along with other already beleaguered state agencies.

Professors at public universities worry that a combination of economic anxiety, anti-union sentiment and frustration over rising college costs will make them and their institutions targets for populist anger.

Public college professors from 21 states vow to start campaign to defend higher education's future.

Rural community colleges across country argue they will be disproportionately hurt by the many across-the-board state budget cuts currently being proposed.

As House leaders propose cuts in 2011 spending, programs important to colleges and students would fare comparatively well (so far).

Higher ed experts give grade of incomplete to Texas governor's goal of four-year degrees at a very low cost.