Higher education bonds

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.

Health care giant University of Pittsburgh Medical Center plans to spend $235 million in the Harrisburg, York and Lancaster areas in 2018. Much of it would go toward a new hospital in York, with some also spent at three other midstate hospitals.

Health and Educational Building Corp. chief Robert Donovan cited a wave of refinancings.

Material financial problems, including federal sanctions, led Moody's to lower the rating to B1.

A decline in international student applications following President Trump's travel ban ratchets up fiscal pressure on public colleges and universities.

Moody's cited a vote to raise employer contribution rates.

Laramie County may see a special election this fall.

San Joaquin Delta College trustees yanked funding on Tuesday for a satellite campus in the north county, prompting Lodi advocates to say that after a decadelong wait the community will now seek partnerships with other colleges or universities.

A merger between Philadelphia University and Thomas Jefferson University will have no immediate credit impact , according to Moody’s Investors Service.

Struggles with tuition revenue growth landed a junk rating for Hartwick College in Oneonta, N.Y.

Oregon will issue more than $100 million in state bonds to keep the Elliott State Forest in public hands and another $50 million to help the University of Oregon build a new science complex named after its most famous graduate.

Wells Fargo Securities hired four public finance veterans for key roles in its government and institutional banking group as it expands its housing and higher education teams.

Rutgers University's outlook was revised to stable from negative by Moody’s Investors Service.

Ector County Independent School District's needs in career and technology education, fine arts and technology were discussed during the Bond Advisory Committee meeting Thursday at George H.W. Bush New Tech Odessa.

Former New York State Assemblyman Jerry Kremer visits The Bond Buyer and shares insight from his days as a lawmaker clashing with former Gov. Mario Cuomo and how a new free college tuition program spearheaded by current Gov. Andrew Cuomo will impact higher education. Hosted by Andrew Coen.

The Hunt County Commissioners Court has approved the sale of the first bonds which will help pay for multiple projects in the $24 million road bond package approved by voters in November.