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Clemson University asks South Carolina lawmakers for $8 million to avoid tuition increases

While the next session for the South Carolina General Assembly will not kick off until Jan. 8, Clemson University is already deep into the process of requesting funds from the state. In September, the ... read more

Anderson and Abbeville county border to be redrawn after meeting Thursday

OTHER NEWS: Clemson University asks South Carolina lawmakers for $8 million to avoid tuition increases Freeman said the county hopes to avoid a repeat of what happened in June, when several people who ... read more

Fiscal woes built at S.C. State over years

The university asked state lawmakers for about $17 million ... debts as well as tuition for any student with a 2.5 grade point average or higher who wants to transfer to a public institution or histor... read more

How the NCAA Scams Taxpayers for Welfare Money

Jones, a longtime Louisiana State University football season ticket holder and Washington lobbyist, who asked then ... pay to the tune of $2.8 million ... this is equivalent to 20,000 months of food s... read more

State summaries: Two-thirds of states face budget challenges

Budget forecasts project a $689 million general fund gap in next year’s budget. That figure assumes lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo will already have cut spending by $2.8 billion to meet a goal of hol... read more

Watch in full: Raimondo’s State of the State address

A great model is the International Center for Automotive Research in South Carolina. There, the State funded a partnership between BMW and Clemson University that has ... initiatives have allowed us t... read more

At Minnesota State system, a big request for lawmakers in exchange for tuition freeze

Dismissing a promise to hold tuition steady last year, the Legislature granted the University of Minnesota a $54.6 million ... cost increases and run a lean operation. “We’ve gotten the message from l... read more

Local lawmakers seek more money for education in S.C. budget

Local lawmakers are happy ... will cost South Carolina State University and other institutions. Matthews said will push to “restore all those” and the Senate should be adding several millions to the b... read more

Influential legislator targets college tuition increases

Nov. 13-- The top budget writer in the state House of Representatives has set his sights on rising college tuition. House Ways and Means chairman Brian White, R- Anderson, said when lawmakers return t... read more

Stories for November 2017

A spokesman said Thursday that the candidates are still being vetted for the University of Arkansas' vacant athletics ... Lindsey Graham, Republican humorist, philosopher and U.S. senator from South C... read more

Shoestring Living: Be grateful every day

Back in the land where we didn’t have kids that participated in unimaginably expensive sports or wished for gifts like iPod Touches, my husband and I actually purchased gifts for each other. I am a go... read more

LOOSE ENDS: Affordable education is a beast of a challenge

I work for Dr. Klein, known to me as Mike, whom I first met when he was a student at Princeton University ... two years after lawmakers agreed to provide $200 million to make up for the shortfall. The ... read more