This is where I pulled the topic for the final paper - A good site to understand what federal policy issues interest the group responsible for handing out .edu domains.
NASPA is the leading voice for student affairs administration, policy and practice and affirms the commitment of student affairs to educating the whole student and integrating student life and learning.
Florida's state universities will be able to increase tuition rates up to 15
percent annually until they reach the national average under a new law signed by
Gov. Charlie Crist.
Crist, university officials and the Florida Student Association supported the
tuition bill (SB 762), saying rates that now are among the nation's lowest must
go up to improve quality, help pay for need-based scholarships and stop a brain
drain of faculty to other states that pay better.
This was an important policy in terms of higher education funding. The tone of the article seems to reflect that the 15% increase will be an annual event for some time to come. It will be interesting to see if the President's call for Pell grants to be increased or subsidized will occur to help with tuition costs.
The question for higher education is what course the FCC sets for how the country will achieve its anchor-institution connectivity goals.
The FCC plan, which was a year in the making, is a blueprint for policy makers, not a pot of money. It is the result of a request that Congress made as part of last year's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.