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The article focuses on the findings of a survey conducted through The Chronicle/Gallup Panel that a plurality of U.S. people favor presidential candidate Barack Obama to tackle college costs. Based on the survey, 42 percent of the respondents think that controlling college costs is extremely important for the next president to address. On the question of which candidate would do more to help families pay for college, Obama maintains a 13-point advantage, 32 percent to 19 percent, over presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton. Robert C. Lockwood, a partner in the Gallup Organization, claims that more than half of the respondents think that the U.S. government should have a role in controlling tuition.

Focuses on the impact of United States President Bill Clinton's legislation that created the AmeriCorps, a national-service education program in 1993. Number of AmeriCorps members who have earned education awards from the program; Other statistics on program participants; Comments on the program.

Discusses the proposal of Senator John F. Kerry to overhaul the U.S. federal government's guaranteed student loan program. Aims of Kerry in developing the proposal; Amount of money that will be saved by the federal government by implementing the proposal; Impact of the proposal on the number of students who can participate in AmeriCorps, a program which provides money for college tuition.

Reports on National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education's development of a novel method for evaluating colleges and universities in different states. Concept of the grading system; Goal to make higher education as kitchen-table issue; Reactions from school officials and legislators.

The article discusses the reaction of college administrators to U.S. President Barack Obama's goal to ensure the U.S. has the highest proportionate college graduation rate in the world by the year 2020. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a charitable organization which has donated funds to increase the number of college graduates, has estimated that Obama's goal may take five years longer than he has suggested. The Lumina Foundation for Education, an educational organization, has issued a report suggesting how the government can align educational programs to reflect job market needs. The authors comment on the use of data from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development to measure graduation rates.

The article discusses the 2008 U.S. presidential debates between senators Barack Obama and John McCain. The article mentions the absence of higher education issues in the debates. The article mentions education quality, the study of mathematics and science, Bob Schieffer, who was a moderator of the debates, and student loan programs. The article also mentions the National Education Writers Association, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, study abroad programs, the youth vote, and K-12 education issues and policy.

The article looks at how a panel of political, business, and higher-education leaders have laid out a proposal for overhauling the education system in the U.S. The plan, released by the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce, calls for squeezing money from current programs and using that money to improve the training and recruitment of elementary and secondary teachers, increase teacher salaries, and prepare some students for community college by the end of 10th grade. Comments from Marc S. Tucker, president of the National Center on Education and the Economy, are presented.

The article reports that after nearly four decades at the American Council on Education, Sheldon E. Steinbach, vice president and general counsel, will step down at the end of September 2006 to join a Washington law firm. Steinbach is moving to the higher-education practice at Dow Lohnes PLLC, where he will focus on expanding the firm's existing business. The article reports that the council has begun searching for a replacement; the new position will focus less on providing internal legal advice and more on advising colleges about legislative and regulatory issues. The article provides a quote from Steinbach reflecting on the changes to higher education law in the areas of environmental issues, employee relations, affirmative action, and athletics administration.

The article focuses on a college-scholarship program launched by former U.S. presidential candidate John Edwards in Greene County, North Carolina in 2006. The program offers college-application advice to high-school seniors as well as financial assistance for their first year of college at selected institutions. Greene County was chosen because its income and education levels are much lower than the state's averages, said Jim Diana, the North Carolina project manager for the program.

The article offers information on two national campaigns in the U.S. set to kick off this year that will promote the value of higher education and seek to expand access to colleges. One seeks to enhance higher education's image with the public. A second campaign, by the Ad Council, scheduled to start in August 2006, will focus on increasing access to college for students from low-income families and minority students. Television viewers saw the fruits of the first campaign last week, when public-service announcements on the importance of higher education were shown during coverage of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's basketball championships on CBS and ESPN.

The article presents news items related to higher education in the United States. At the annual meeting of the American Council on Education that was held in Los Angeles, international competitiveness issues were emphasized. Mark R. Warner, former governor of Virginia and a presumed candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, opined that competition for "intellectual capital," particularly by colleges in India and China, posed an "enormous challenge" to the United States. France A. Córdova, chancellor of the University of California at Riverside, urged college administrators to change their admissions practices and redesign their teaching methodologies to increase the output of students in science and mathematics.

The article reports that Student Loan Marketing Association (Sallie Mae), the nation's largest provider of federal student loans, announced that it would cover the 3-percent fee that borrowers must pay to obtain the loans. The move, which follows on the heels of the same offer made by two competitors, comes as Congress weighs proposals that would eventually reduce or eliminate the upfront fee. Sallie Mae said the company would pay the 3-percent origination fee for students nationwide with unsubsidized and subsidized undergraduate and graduate federal Stafford Loans for 2006-7.

The article reports that the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate are on a collision course with competing tax bills that would provide several tax breaks of interest to higher-education institutions on tuition and research, as well as incentives designed to encourage charitable giving. The Senate was poised to approve its version of the legislation, S 2020, late last week. The House Ways and Means Committee passed its tax-cut bill, HR 4297, last week, but the full House is not expected to take up the measure until December, after the chamber debates separate legislation to cut spending.

Presents information on several agenda of the American Council on Education annual meeting in the U.S. in February 2005. Views of Representative John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), chairman of the House of Committee on Education and the Workforce, on the plan of the government regarding the Pell Grants and the Perkins Loan Program; Application of the No Child Left Behind Act and the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System in the higher education system; Significance of the alignment of tuition fees with median family income.

Presents updates on education in the U.S. as of February 25, 2005. Agreement of Florida International University to the pay the federal government to settle accusations of improper billing of the U.S. Department of Energy by a research center for environmental technology; Approval of a job-training bill on grants for community colleges by the education committee of the U.S. House of Representatives; Plan of U.S. President George W. Bush regarding the elimination of vocational and technical education funds for community colleges.

Reports on the joint letter sent by higher education associations that urged presidential candidates U.S. President George W. Bush and Senator John Kerry to focus on education. Way to expand federal student-aid according to the letter; Topics for college leaders that are included in the letter; Purpose of the letter.

Reports on the decline in the number of foreign graduate students applying to study in the U.S. since 2003, according to a February 2004 survey released by five higher-education associations in the U.S. Number of institutions that participated in the survey; Percentage of decline in international applicants; Demand of the five higher-education associations in the U.S. Congress to change the visa-processing system.

Reports on the reduction of funds of the AmeriCorps national service program in the U.S. Reason behind the reduction of funds; Amount received by a volunteer to pay for college education; Impact of the cutback on AmeriCorps' programs.

Discusses the Republican platform on education which was approved by delegates to the 2000 Republican National Convention. Promises of the platform, including an increase in federal research spending; Questions regarding where the language of the platform is leading.

Presents two news briefs pertaining to higher education in the United States as of March 26, 1999. Approval of a plan by the California State University Board of Trustees that requires the campus system to focus on improving the quality of academic programs; Decrease in the number of black applicants to the University of Washington Law School.

Focuses on a variety of topics pertaining to education. How the National Science Foundation will pay $95,400 to settle a lawsuit filed by Travis Kidd, a white graduate student at Clemson University who claimed racial discrimination in the school's Minority Graduate Research Fellowship Program; President Bill Clinton's nomination of Jane E. Henney, a University of New Mexico cancer specialist, for the position of commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration.

Presents two brief articles relating to the business aspects of education. The decision of British publisher Pearson P.L.C. to buy Simon & Schuster's educational publishing division; The merger of Saint Francis College and the Lutheran College of Health Professions.

Provides Washington, D.C. news briefs on education for the week ending February 27, 1998. How Carrie L. Billy, a lawyer with a group that lobbies for American Indian higher education, was sworn in as the first director of the new White House Initiative on Tribal Colleges and Universities; How college students and professional students go into debt to finance their education, according to the General Accounting Office report; Other briefs.