Higher education bonds

The system reported strong investor demand for $350 million of taxable debt earlier in the week.

The new money and refunding bonds are being sold Wednesday.

A dearth of state paper bodes well for the sale, says state finance director Sandi Thompson.

Strong demand for New York State’s new free public college tuition program could disrupt the private higher education landscape.

The action by the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia is a response to enrollment challenges.

Five winners of the Carey Gabay scholarship program were announced on Monday, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced.

The UT system will offer investors a choice of taxable or tax-exempt debt as it prices $600 million of bonds.

The Indiana land-grant university is buying out Kaplan, a for-profit distance learning enterprise.

The Board of Regents enterprise since 2001 has saved more than $101 million by refinancing bonds — with most of those savings coming since the Great Recession in 2008, after which interest rates plummeted to the lowest in recent history.

The State Bond Commission Thursday gave authority to start seeking loans on the second phase of a massive LSU project that includes a mixed-use development on Nicholson Drive and tearing down 52-year-old Kirby Smith Hall dormitory.