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For L.A.-Area Colleges, Some Freeway Publicity

Caltrans says schools — nonprofit and for-profit — can apply for freeway directional signs. To qualify, campuses generally must have at least 1,000 students.

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N.Y.U.’s Plan to Expand Is Approved by Council

As opponents shouted “Shame!” from a City Council balcony, New York University won final approval on Wednesday for a huge expansion plan that will change the look and feel of Greenwich Village more than almost any other project in decades.

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Gov. Bobby Jindal Says LSU Will Protect Health-Care Services Despite State Budget Cuts

Gov. Bobby Jindal said Tuesday he's confident LSU's network of public hospitals and clinics will safeguard health care services, despite cuts that strip a quarter of the system's funding.

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OSU, Stillwater Officials Develop Plan To Connect Campus To Downtown

Although a timeline isn't in place for the project, officials with Oklahoma State University and the city of Stillwater say a plan to connect the campus to downtown could benefit both parties.

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NYC Council Committee Backs NYU Expansion

The Land Use Committee of the New York City Council voted 19-1 Tuesday to back a modified version of a plan to add four new buildings to New York University's Greenwich Village campus.

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Oklahoma Business Leaders Support College Completion Agenda

Higher education and business leaders agree that Oklahoma needs more college graduates to keep up with industry demands. But others argue the need to ramp up the state's graduation rates may be overblown.

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NYC To Decide On Controversial NYU Growth Plan

City officials will vote this month on a hotly contested plan to add four buildings totaling more than 2 million square feet to the Greenwich Village campus of New York University, the nation's largest private university.

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State Business Execs Seek Closer Ties With Minn. Higher Ed

Minnesota leaders in business and higher education are trying to work more closely together, arguing that the state’s colleges and universities are its driver of economic growth.

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Downtown Mesa Is Getting Its Fourth Liberal-Arts School

The idea was to take a sprawling desert suburb, better known for senior-living trailer parks than for schools, and retrofit it with the kinds of colleges that sprang up in America's older regions, decades or even centuries ago.

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FIU Medical School Slow To Take Medicaid Cases

Florida International University’s medical school — which has touted itself as an ally to the medically-underserved — is being criticized for not yet accepting Medicaid at its recently-opened physicians’ office.

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