For much of the last year, community colleges and the Bush administration have, symbolically, been dancing cheek to cheek. Given what's in the Bush administration's 2006 budget proposal, they may spend the next few months fighting toe to toe.
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Citing budget issues, John Carroll University fundamentally alters tenure -- to the point that professors say it and academic freedom no longer exist.
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February 8, 2005
The Bush budget plan would provide small increases for the NIH and NSF, while cutting spending on other programs.
February 8, 2005
President wants to eliminate many education programs -- and community colleges are particularly hard hit.
January 17, 2005
There is no such thing as an offhanded comment from a White House spokesman.So when Trent Duffy, in explaining Friday that President Bush would seek to bolster the Pell Grant program in part by reducing the subsidies paid to lenders in the student-loan program, called the subsidies "excessive" and described the loan industry as "very profitable," the political winds surrounding the student-loan programs continued to shift.